Title: The Korean Age.
Age: Korean.
Actual age: That is going to get actually complicated, isn’t it?
It actually appears that manner. I promise it’s easier than it seems. Let me ask you a query. How outdated had been you if you had been born?
That’s simple. I used to be zero years outdated. That’s nice! Except, after all, you had been born in South Korea.
Why? As a result of then you definately can be one 12 months outdated.
No, I wouldn’t. Sure you'd, as a result of in South Korea infants are one 12 months outdated once they’re born.
So are pregnancies longer there, then, or …? No, it’s simply how they rely it. Second query: At what level do you develop into one other 12 months older?
Oh, I do know this one: it’s on my birthday. No. It’s on 1 January. Everybody in all the nation will get one 12 months older at precisely the identical time, on 1 January
I’m misplaced. Then I had higher not let you know concerning the different manner of calculating age in South Korea, the place infants are born on the age of zero and get one 12 months older on 1 January.
What? Why? As a result of it’s custom, that’s why. Because the BBC has reported, this inconsistency implies that Kim Tae-hyung – AKA V of pop group BTS fame – is concurrently 26, 27 and 28 years outdated, as he was born on 30 December 1995 .
This seems like an almighty headache. It's. South Korea is the one nation on the planet the place a new child child will be two years outdated. And that’s why the nation’s president-elect, Yoon Suk-yeol, has proposed a modernisation.
Thank heavens for that. Simply don’t count on it to be carried out in any respect. An identical modernisation coverage was proposed in 2019, and once more final 12 months, however each makes an attempt didn't get written into regulation.
However why? I do know, proper? Think about dwelling in a rustic that intentionally chooses to disregard primary world logic as a way to appease some spurious, misty-eyed, false reminiscence of custom and sovereignty.
Effectively, fairly. Anyway, it appears to me like South Korea must get a deal with on this. I agree fully. What the nation wants now's for an actual grownup to step in and take cost of the scenario. And, what? I nominate myself.
Why? Are you a grownup? I most actually am. I’m … dangle on, let me attempt to determine this out … I used to be born in … and I get a 12 months older each January … OK, I’m both six months outdated or 153.
Do say: “South Korea has some actually unconventional customs.”
Don’t say: “Says somebody who lives in a rustic that has an official swan census.”
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