South Korea added more than 300,000 jobs for the second consecutive month in February, data showed Wednesday.

The number of employed people came to 28.04 million last month, up 329,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea.

It is the second month in a row that the number of new jobs has exceeded 300,000. In January, 380,000 jobs were added after three months of job additions below 300,000.

The employment rate of people aged 15-64 increased 0.7 percentage point on-year to 68.7 percent last month, and the jobless rate also grew 0.1 percentage point to 3.2 percent, the data showed.

Source: Yonhap News Agency