COUNTING AGE

South Koreans become a year or two younger as traditional way of counting age scrapped

According to the age system that South Koreans most frequently employ, a year is added to a person's age on January 1 of each year after they are born. The nation has utilised the worldwide standard of starting at zero at birth and adding a year on every birthday for medical and legal papers since the early 1960s. But for everything else, a large portion of South Koreans kept using the conventional approach.