New South Korean bills make citizens one year younger
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New South Korean bills make citizens one year younger
SEOUL (Web Desk) – South Korea passed a set of bills requiring to implement the international system of calculating age in a bid to "resolve the social confusion caused by the mixed use of age calculations and the resulting side effects".
Besides recognizing newborn baby one year old, the traditional “Korean age” system also adds a year to citizen’s age every January 1 instead of at their birthday.
The new system will be implemented in June next year.
Not just that, the Korean system also counts citizen’s legal drinking and smoking age in a weird way, if international standard is a guide. On the contrary to age on official documents, drinking or smoking age starts from zero at birth. However, a year is added on Jan 1.
As per traditional system, if a person is born on Dec 22, 1990, he will be 34 years old and his legal smoking or drinking age will be 33. However, according to international system, his age will be 32 years.
