Who doesn't know someone who would give anything to go back in time and be the age they were a year ago? Yeah, a lot of people dream of being a little younger, even knowing that this is impossible to happen. However, it is not so impossible for the natives of South Korea. Understand how South Koreans can have their ages changed.
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Very different from ours, South Korea's age system establishes a child's age at birth. Every January 1st, South Koreans see their age increase, that's right, all of them. To give you an idea, a person born on November 25, 2002, according to the system we use, will be 19 years old on November 20, 2022. In the Korean system, she will be 21 years old. Weird is not it?
Not only using the curious system, South Korea also has the international system, in addition to another that authorizes the smoking and/or drinking age. In this, children are zero years old at birth and increase in age every January 1st.
However, the South Korean government is about to abolish the system, causing many citizens to have their ages updated with a few digits less.
As of June 2023, South Korea will fully adopt the international age system. Laws requiring such conduct have been passed and will become effective in the country.
Why change?
Due to the plurality of methods of age counts in force in the country, administrative and social problems are commonplace and end up giving headaches to administrative institutions. So, the best way to counteract any age-related issues was to choose to use only the international system.
