- South Koreans will age one or even two years on official documents.
- The so-called “Korean Age” system will no longer be accepted on official documents as of June 2023.
- The two conventional age-counting systems in Korea were abolished by a law that was approved by the South Korean parliament on Thursday.
There will only be the standardised, approach that is accepted everywhere.
By implementing the same system as the rest of the world, the government is delivering on a campaign pledge to clear up uncertainty.
The so-called “Korean age system,” in which a person is one year old at birth and then gains a year on the first day of each new year, is currently the most generally utilised calculating technique in Korea.
A different approach, known as “counting age,” starts a person’s age at zero at birth and adds a year on January 1. This approach is used to determine who is old enough to smoke and drink legally.
However, South Korea also follows the widely accepted approach, in which a person’s age is determined by their birthday and their first birthday is observed 365 days after birth.
As a result, a person who was born on December 31, 2002, as of December 8, 2022, would be 19 in the international system, 20 in the counting system, and 21 in the Korean system.
The reform is intended to reduce unnecessary socio-economic expenditures because there are still legal and social disputes and uncertainty as a result of the various methods of determining age, according to Yoo Sang-bum of the ruling People Power Party in a statement to the legislature.
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