Another devastating month as the country lost about a million jobs on-year in January alone.
Businesses are continuing to reel from the pandemic and the tight social distancing guidelines.
The slide in January happened at the sharpest pace since the aftermath of Asian Financial Crisis more than two decades ago.
We have our Eum Ji-young on the line.
Ji-young, a historically grim month for jobseekers Yes Mok-yeon, according to data released by Statistics Korea on Wednesday, the number of employed people in South Korea was around 25.8 million,down 982-thousand from the same month the year before. Since last March when the pandemic began to take its toll on the economy, the employment figures have dropped for 11 consecutive months on-year, the longest period of on-year decline since 1999.