South Koreans become younger overnight after country scraps 'Korean age' | CNN
South Koreans become younger overnight after country scraps 'Korean age' | 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 law.
A baby born on Dec 31st is 1 year old, and the next day would be 2 years old ... A 2 day old baby would be considered 2 years old. Glad they decided that this was beyond odd.
My daughter was born at 22:30 on December 31. In Korea she would have been considered 2 years old when she was born less than 2 hours previously.
Ehh, I'm sad that another country is being forced to Western standards and lose an unique part of their culture.
Too bad they didn't keep their very own system of measurement which is so much more convenient than the internationally recognized and simple system... Not looking in anybody's direction
babies are considered a year old on the day they’re born
Is there any useful idea behind this? That sounds completely dumb.
It's just semantics. When you are born, you are in your first year of life, not your zeroth year of life. After a full year, you are one year old. Grammar varies from language to language, and sometimes one feels more natural.
Imagine everyone in English said "I'm in my 32nd year" instead of "I'm 31 years old." Now you meet a foreigner who says the opposite. Translation issues abound!
That's not a birth day. It's an inaccurate conception day and for most of it we weren't alive yet.
Gangnam Style! Op op op!