South Koreans have gotten a yr youthful following a set of payments handed by parliament to unify the nation’s age system.

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South Koreans have gotten a yr youthful following a set of payments handed by parliament to unify the nation’s age system.

Ahn Young-joon/AP

You’re not getting any youthful — until you reside in South Korea.

South Koreans will quickly develop into a yr or two youthful, following an official change to the nation’s age-counting system.

On Thursday, the nation’s parliament, referred to as the National Assembly, passed a set of bills requiring the usage of the worldwide age-counting system, the place age is predicated on beginning date.

South Korea presently makes use of three age-counting methods, however most residents abide by the “Korean age,” the place an individual is 1 yr outdated as quickly as they’re born, and achieve one yr on each New Year’s Day. And a child born on Dec. 31 could be thought-about 2 years outdated the following day.

The change will go into impact this coming June.

So technically, infants born from now till then might nonetheless go by the standard “Korean age” system.

While a majority of South Koreans go by the “Korean age,” most appear to help the transfer to the extra broadly used system, the place an individual is zero on the day they’re born and achieve a yr each birthday.

More than 80% of South Koreans supported unifying the age-counting system, in response to a September poll by the Ministry of Government Legislation.

And 86% stated they’d go by their beginning date age of their day by day lives, in response to the ballot.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol had promised to unify the nation’s age-counting methods on the marketing campaign path earlier this yr, saying that they created “unnecessary social and economic costs.”

South Korea has been tallying age by beginning dates for the reason that Nineteen Sixties.

But whereas most East Asian international locations have scrapped the standard age-counting system, some have but to observe go well with.

For instance, in China, which makes use of the nominal age-counting system, an individual is taken into account 1 yr outdated on the day they’re born, they usually achieve a yr on the Lunar New Year.