South Koreans woke up on July 1st, 2023 a year or even two years younger after the government changed the East Asian country's traditional way of calculation age by which babies are considered one year old on the day that they are born and one year is added to their age on each January 1st.
Lee Jung-hee was set to turn 60 next year but South Korea dropped its traditional age counting system Wednesday, so the Seoul-based housewife just got a year younger and she's thrilled. South Korea is the last East Asian country to officially still use a method of calculating age that…
A new law has scrapped South Korea's traditional age-counting system, meaning people have to recalculate their ages. A third system will, however, remain in place.
SEOUL (AFP) – Lee Jung-hee was set to turn 60 next year but South Korea dropped its traditional age counting system on Wednesday, so the Seoul-based housewife just got a year younger – and she’s thrilled. South Korea is the last East Asian country to officially still use a method of calculating age that determines […]
Lee Jung-hee was set to turn 60 next year but South Korea dropped its traditional age counting system Wednesday, so the Seoul-based housewife just got a year younger and she's thrilled."It feels good," Lee, a Seoul-based housewife, told AFP.
"For people like me, who were supposed to turn 60 next year, it makes you feel like you're still young," she laughed.