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All South Koreans to become younger as traditional age system scrapped
June 2023 will mark the end of system that saw babies born aged one, with a year added every 1 January

Reuters
Fri 9 Dec 2022 01.35 GMT

South Korea has passed laws to scrap its traditional method of counting ages and adopt the international standard – a shift that will make its citizens either one or two years younger on official documents.

Koreans are deemed to be a year old when born and a year is added every 1 January. It’s this age most commonly cited by Koreans in everyday life.

A separate system also exists for conscription purposes or calculating the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke, in which a person’s age is calculated from zero at birth and a year is added on 1 January.

Since the early 1960s, however, South Korea has for medical and legal documents also used the international norm of calculating from zero at birth and adding a year on every birthday.

The confusing array of systems will disappear from June 2023 – at least on official documents – when the new laws that stipulate using only the international method of counting ages take effect.

“The revision is aimed at reducing unnecessary socio-economic costs because legal and social disputes as well as confusion persist due to the different ways of calculating age,” Yoo Sang-bum of the ruling People Power party told parliament.



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North Korean drone reaches north of Seoul

Published26 December 2022
By Jean Mackenzie in Seoul & Robert Plummer in London BBC News

South Korean military officials say North Korea has flown five drones across their mutual border.

The "unmanned aerial vehicles" violated South Korean airspace in the border areas around Gyeonggi province, said the country's joint chiefs of staff.

One drone flew all the way to the northern edge of the capital, Seoul, before returning across the border.

Jets and attack helicopters were deployed, but 100 rounds fired from helicopters failed to shoot them down.

A South Korean military official said they had since lost track of all the drones, but that they were no longer in flight.

The incursion comes amid increased tensions on the Korean peninsula, with the North conducting a record number of missile tests this year.

The drones were spotted crossing the border at about 10:30 local time (01:30 GMT).

One of the South Korean warplanes involved in the operation, a KA-1 light attack aircraft, later crashed, but its two pilots escaped unhurt.

The plane fell to the ground in Hoengseong County, east of Seoul, soon after take-off from an air base in the nearby city of Wonju, according to the air force, quoted by Yonhap.

South Korea also suspended planes taking off and landing at its Incheon and Gimpo airports for about an hour.

A South Korean military official described the latest incursion as a clear act of provocation by Pyongyang.




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South Koreans become a year or two younger as country changes system for counting ages
While some are expected to keep using the old system, 86% say they will adopt the international system in their everyday lives

Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies
Wed 28 Jun 2023 05.02 BST

All South Koreans have instantly become a year or two younger, as the country ditched its traditional – and increasingly unpopular – system for counting someone’s age and replaced it with the internationally accepted method.

Under the previous system, the country’s citizens are deemed to be a year old when they are born, and a year is added every 1 January. The unusual custom meant that a baby born on New Year’s Eve would become two years old as soon as the clock strikes midnight.

But under the revisions introduced on Wednesday, ages will be calculated in the same way as the rest of the world in most administrative and civil matters, including contracts and other official documents, the Korea Times said.

The national assembly, which approved the change in December, said it would “resolve the social confusion caused by the mixed use of age calculations and the resulting side effects”.

While the global standard has applied to medical and legal documents since the 1960s, other official forms have continued to use the traditional method.




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Vietnamese have very similar customs, and it's a royal pain in the ass. They are one the day they are born and their "birthday" is on Tet. My adopted Vietnamese brother never knew how old he actually was or even what day he was born. He came here and was basically assigned an arbitrary age, which was most likely several years older than he actually was. The older he got, the more apparent the wrong age became. At some point during all the legal stuff he was allowed to pick a birthday and he chose to use my dad's, and they adjusted his age to be closer to how old he should have been all along.
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