Sejong City celebrates King Sejong's birthday, promotes Hangeul koreatimes.co.kr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from koreatimes.co.kr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
More than 270 multicultural family members learned about Korean laws and regulations through tailored education programs run by the Ministry of Government Legislation in the first half of this year. According to the ministry, Sunday, the education programs were offered in 15 multicultural family centers and other institutions in Seoul, Sejong, Guri in Gyeonggi Province and Asan in South Chungcheong Province to help multicultural family members successfully settle in Korean society.
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.
SEOUL — South Koreans became a year or two younger on Wednesday as new laws that require using only the international method of counting age took effect, replacing the country’s
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…