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Every person in South Korea suddenly becomes a year younger (news.sky.com)

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The international system replaces one of the country's two traditional methods, where people are deemed to be a year old at birth - taking into account time spent in the womb.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

"I was about to turn 30 next year [under the traditional Korean age system], but now I have some more time earned, and I love it," Choi Hyun-ji, a 27-year-old office worker in Seoul, told the Reuters News agency.

I actually don't get how this works, and I lived in South Korea for a year. I get that your age increases on New Year's Day, but how can you be any more than a year older than your "international age"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Let's say the office worker who is 27 internationally today was born in December 1995. He was 1 at his birth, turned 2 in January 1996 (Korean age). In January 2023 he turned 29 and will turn 30 in January 2024, but internationally he'll turn 28 in December 2023.

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