The invention provides a method for manufacturing reduced iron. The method for manufacturing the reduced iron according to the present invention comprises: charging iron ore into a reduction furnace; injecting reduction gas; and reducing magnetite, wherein the iron ore charged into the reduction furnace is mixed with a solid sulfur compound so that the sulfur (S) content with respect to the total mass ratio of the iron ore is between 0.1-1%, and wherein the pressure range of the reduction gas is no less than 1 atm.