Residents of South Korea will officially "rejuvenate" for a couple of years from June 28
In South Korea, on June 28, the age reference system is being changed - a law will officially come into force introducing rules identical to the international age calculation system in the country. The country will cancel the "Korean approach" and the citizens of the republic will wake up on Wednesday one or two years younger, Time magazine reports.
The country's parliament adopted the relevant law at the end of last year. The age calculation system used all over the world, when a newborn is recorded as zero years old, and then one year is added to the birthday, has been used in South Korea since 1960, but only in medicine to determine the physical age of the patient. Also, the "Korean age" is used in law, in litigation, as well as in some other areas.
There are two traditional systems in South Korea. The first, in which a newborn is "assigned" one year, and then the age is added on the first day of the New Year according to the lunar calendar. And the second is that zero years are recorded at birth, and the age is increased on January 1 of each year.
When switching to the standard age calculation system, from June 28, some residents of the country will lose a year or even two according to documents. For example, a Korean born on December 31, 2002, turned 19 years old by December 8 according to the international system, and according to two systems adopted in the republic - 20 or 21 years old.
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