{
  "id": 19424426,
  "title": "S. Korea Adds 139,000 New Jobs in October",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/s-korea-adds-139-000-new-jobs-in-october",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-11T01:12:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "KBS World Radio",
    "slug": "kbs-world-radio",
    "url": "https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=205491"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "South Korea added 139,000 jobs in October, marking the fourth consecutive month that monthly employment gains stayed above 100,000. According to data from the Ministry of Data and Statistics released Wednesday, the number of employed people aged 15 and older was 29.18 million, according to KBS World Radio, while The Korea Times reported the figure as 29.17 million.\n\nThe country's jobless rate was 2 percent last month, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the previous year. The Korea Times reported that the number of unemployed people totaled 602,000 in October, which was 56,000 fewer than in the same month in 2025.\n\nThe employment rate for individuals aged 15 to 64 reached 70.4 percent, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from a year earlier. However, the employment rate for those aged 15 to 29 fell by 1.7 percentage points to 42.9 percent, according to The Korea Times.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "(URGENT) S. Korea adds 139,000 jobs in Oct.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/urgent-s-korea-adds-139-000-jobs-in-oct",
        "published": "2026-11-10T23:00:04.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Korea adds 139,000 jobs in October, above 100,000 for 4th month",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/korea-adds-139-000-jobs-in-october-above-100-000-for-4th-month",
        "published": "2026-11-10T23:32:03.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}