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SEOUL , March 18 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's jobless rate rose in February to the highest in five years amid slow growth of job creation, a government report showed Wednesday.


Unemployment rate gained 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier to 4.6 percent in February, the highest since February 2010 when it recorded 4.9 percent, according to Statistics Korea.


The unemployment rate among those aged 15-29 was 11.1 percent in February, the highest since July 1999 when the figure posted 11. 5 percent.


The so-called ""sentiment"" jobless rate, which the statistics agency began to unveil from November 2014, was 12.5 percent in February , up from 11.9 percent in January.


The official unemployment rate gauges the percentage of those unemployed who actively sought jobs in the past four weeks to the sum of people employed and unemployed.


The sentiment jobless rate includes part-time workers who hope to get a regular job working more than 36 hours a week and those who want to work but reply during the job survey period that they conducted no job-searching activity in the past four weeks.


The number of those unemployed was 1,203,000 in February, up 2. 1 percent from a year earlier.


The higher jobless rate came as job creation slowed down in February when the number of those employed grew 376,000 from a year earlier to 25,195,000.