Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — More than 51 million people in South Korea awoke on Wednesday to find themselves a year or two younger – at least, according to the
South Korea scrapped its traditional age-counting system on Wednesday, instantly reducing the age of citizens by one or two years in a move to align with international standards and reduce clerical headaches.
South Koreans are enjoying being aged younger today, even if not feeling so, as the country scraps its traditional way of counting the age of people where they become one at birth
People in South Korea all became at least one year younger on Wednesday, as the country dropped a traditional method of counting their ages. Under the old system, a person was one year old at birth.