SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's unemployment rate eased to match a record low of 2.6% in February from 2.9% in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, data showed on Wednesday.

This is the same as the record set in August last year.

Adults aged 60 or older led the drop as the unemployment rate for this age group fell to 1.6% in February from 2.6% in January. Rates for other age groups changed little or even rose, the Statistics Korea data showed.

(Reporting by Choonsik Yoo; Editing by Chris Reese and Tom Hogue)