South Korea added over 400-thousand jobs for three straight months while the employment rate hit a 37-year high in February.

According to Statistics Korea on Wednesday, the number of employed people reached 26-point-83 million last month, up 492-thousand from a year earlier. 

The employment rate for those aged 15 or older reached 60 percent, the highest February figure since the country started compiling related monthly data in July 1982.

The employment rate for those aged 15 to 64 also gained point-five percentage points on-year to 66-point-three percent in February, the largest figure for the month since 1989. 

The jobless rate fell point-six percentage points on-year to four-point-one percent last month.