South Koreans Yonger Under The New Age Counting Law

South Koreans have become a year or two younger as a new law aligns the nation’s two traditional age-counting methods with international standards.

The law scraps one traditional system that deemed south Koreans one year old at birth, counting time in the womb.

Another counted everyone as ageing by a year every first day of January instead of on their birthdays.

The switch to age-counting based on birth date took effect on Wednesday.

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President Yoon Suk Yeol pushed strongly for the change when he ran for office last year.

He said the traditional age-counting methods created “unnecessary social and economic costs.

The traditional age-counting methods were also used by other east Asian countries, but most have dropped it.

Japan adopted the international standard in 1950 while north Korea followed suit in the 1980s.