{"id":24035,"date":"2023-06-28T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=24035"},"modified":"2023-06-28T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T07:44:00","slug":"south-koreans-become-a-year-or-two-younger-as-traditional-way-of-counting-age-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2023\/06\/28\/south-koreans-become-a-year-or-two-younger-as-traditional-way-of-counting-age-scrapped\/","title":{"rendered":"South Koreans become a year or two younger as traditional way of counting age scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"location-names\">SEOUL : <\/strong>South Koreans became a year or two younger on Wednesday as new laws that require using only the international method of counting age took effect, replacing the country&#8217;s traditional method.<\/p>\n<p>Under the age system most commonly used in South Koreans&#8217; everyday life, people are deemed to be a year old at birth and a year is added every Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The country has since the early 1960s used the international norm of calculating from zero at birth and adding a year on every birthday for medical and legal documents. But many South Koreans continued to use the traditional method for everything else.<\/p>\n<p>In December, South Korea passed laws to scrap the traditional method and fully adopt the international standard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect legal disputes, complaints and social confusion that have been caused over how to calculate ages will be greatly reduced,&#8221; Minister of Government Legislation Lee Wan-kyu told a briefing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a government survey conducted in September 2022, 86% of South Koreans said they would use the international age in their everyday life when the new laws took effect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was about to turn 30 next year (under the traditional Korean age system) but now I have some more time earned and I love it,&#8221; Choi Hyun-ji, a 27-year-old office worker in Seoul, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just great to feel like getting younger,&#8221; Choi added.<\/p>\n<p>Another age system exists in South Korea for conscription, school entrance and calculating the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke: a person&#8217;s age is calculated from zero at birth and a year is added on Jan. 1. Officials said that method would remain for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL : South Koreans became a year or two younger on Wednesday as new laws that require using only the international method of counting age took effect, replacing the country&#8217;s traditional method. Under the age system most commonly used in South Koreans&#8217; everyday life, people are deemed to be a year old at birth and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24037,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions\/24037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}