South Korea is Going to Get 2 years Youngers
South Korea going to change its traditional aging system to an international aging system. A move that is intended to reduce confusion and comply with global norms.
South Korea is the last East Asian country to officially still use a method of calculating age that determines babies are aged one at birth. Counting their months in the womb as their first year of life. Under that system everyone gets a year older with the turn of the year. Rather than on their actual birthday, meaning a baby born on Dec. 31 would be considered two years old on Jan. 1 in Korean age.
On Wednesday, more than 50 million South Koreans woke up to being a year or two younger. As a new law came into effect concerning age. The change in age comes after the South Korean parliament passed a law on the same in Dec...