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

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