SEOUL  -South Korea's jobless rate climbed in July for a second month and hit the highest since January, with job growth its slowest in nearly 2-1/2 years. The unemployment rate rose to 2.8 percent in July on a seasonally adjusted basis, from 2.6 percent in June, Statistics Korea data showed on Wednesday. Its reading of 2.5 percent in May was the lowest since the data series began in June 1999. The number of employed people increased by 211,000 in July from the year before, smaller than a rise of 333,000 in June and the smallest since February 2021.

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