S. Korea adds 63,000 jobs in June despite weak manufacturing

South Korea added 63,000 jobs in June from a year earlier, government data showed Wednesday, marking the first rebound in two months, although manufacturing sector jobs continued to lose ground. The number of employed people came to 29.15 million in June, compared with 29.09 million a year earlier, according to data from the Ministry of Data and Statistics. Job growth remained in the 200,000 range in February and March before slowing to 74,000 in April. It then contracted by 40,000 in May, marki