Lawmakers agreed to adopt the international standard, a shift that will make South Korean citizens either one or two years younger on official documents.
on Thursday passed laws to scrap its traditional method of counting ages and adopt the international standard, a shift that will make its citizens either one or two years younger on official documents.
A separate system also exists for conscription purposes or calculating the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke, in which a person’s age is calculated from zero at birth and a year is added on Jan. 1. The confusing array of systems will disappear — at least on official documents — when the new laws that stipulate using only the international method of counting ages take effect in June 2023.
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