People in the capital of Seoul in South Korea. Ahn Young-joon / AP
Political situation in South Korea
Younger South Koreans: "Turned six and turned five again"
On Wednesday, over 51 million South Koreans woke up and were suddenly a year or two younger. This is due to a change in the law.
AP has spoken to residents who have mixed opinions about their "new" ages.
- I just turned six and now I'm five again, says Kim Da-in.
49-year-old Choi Eun-young says she welcomes the change as she no longer has to state that she is in her 50s.
The reason is that South Korea scrapped its traditional age system where one was counted as one year old on the day one was born.
According to the old way of thinking, the age was also raised on January 1 every year instead of on the birthday itself.
This meant that a child born in December 2022 was counted as two years old on January 1, 2023.
Now the South Koreans must follow the international age calculation instead.
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According to the sources, the decision was taken by IARC, WHO's cancer research agency, earlier in June.
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