A new law that adjusts the way age in South Korea is calculated has just made much of the country officially younger.
South Koreans are now officially younger after a new law went into effect that recalculates the age of a person based on international standards based on a person's date of birth, rather than traditional South Korean methods of determining age.
Not everything will change, however. Some laws like those governing the purchase of alcohol and tobacco will still be based on the year someone was born, rather than their actual birthday, keeping with the "counting age" convention of advancing someone's age every New Year's Day.
; "some people think of how old they are in terms of the Western way of counting, others do according to the Korean way of counting, and there is in fact more than one way of doing it the Korean way so to speak,”
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