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During the June-August period, employment averaged 4.655 million, down 24,000 from a year earlier. The total comprised 2.464 million men and 2.191 million women.
Employment in the domestic primary labor market declined by 36,000 year-on-year to 4.467 million. A further 66,000 people participated in public employment programs, while 122,000 worked abroad.
The employment rate among people aged 15-64 remained unchanged from a year earlier at 75.4%. The rate was 78.9% for men and 71.9% for women.
Over the three-month period, the average number of unemployed people rose to 235,000, with the unemployment rate increasing to 4.8%.
There were 117,000 unemployed men, corresponding to a rate of 4.5%, while female unemployment rose to 118,000, or 5.1%. KSH said the sectoral concentration of labor demand was limiting women’s employment prospects.
The average duration of a job search was 11.7 months. Some 42.6% of unemployed people had been looking for work for less than three months, down 3 percentage points from a year earlier. Meanwhile, the share seeking work for at least a year increased by 4.2 percentage points to 33.7%.
Separate administrative data from the National Employment Service showed that the number of registered job seekers fell 1.5% year-on-year to 219,000 at the end of August.
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