South Koreans will soon become a year or two younger, following an official change to the country's age-counting system.
South Koreans are becoming a year younger following a set of bills passed by parliament to unify the country's age system.South Koreans are becoming a year younger following a set of bills passed by parliament to unify the country's age system.South Koreans will soon become a year or two younger, following an official change to the country's age-counting system.requiring the use of the international age-counting system, where age is based on birth date.
South Korea currently uses three age-counting systems, but most citizens abide by the"Korean age," where a person is 1 year old as soon as they are born, and gain one year on every New Year's Day. And a baby born on Dec. 31 would be considered 2 years old the next day.So technically, babies born from now until then could still go by the traditional"Korean age" system.
While a majority of South Koreans go by the"Korean age," most seem to support the move to the more widely used system, where a person is zero on the day they are born and gain a year every birthday.September pollAnd 86% said they would go by their birth date age in their daily lives, according to the poll.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol had promised to unify the country's age-counting systems on the campaign trail earlier this year, saying that they created"unnecessary social and economic costs."But while most East Asian countries have scrapped the traditional age-counting system, some have yet to follow suit.
For example, in China, which uses the nominal age-counting system, a person is considered 1 year old on the day they are born, and they gain a year on the Lunar New Year.
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