South Korea's unemployment rate decreased in August, data from Statistics Korea showed on Wednesday.The unemployment rate dropped to a seasonally adjusted 2.4 percent in August from 2.8 percent in July. In the corresponding month last year, the unemployment rate was 2.6 percent.On an unadjusted basis, the jobless rate also declined to 2.0 percent in August from 2.7 percent, indicating 573,000 unem...
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