INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
South Koreans are set to become one or even two years younger - at least on official paperwork.On Thursday, the South Korean parliament
permitted on official documents.Only the standardised, internationally recognised method will remain.The government is fulfilling a campaign
promise to reduce confusion by adopting the same system used in the rest of the world.Currently, the most widely used calculation method in
This method exists primarily to calculate the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke.But South Korea also uses the globally recognised system
example, as of 8 December 2022, a person born on December 31 2002 is 19 under the international system, 20 under the counting system and 21
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