South Koreans may be getting a year or two younger after lawmakers passed a new law to standardize the way people's age is calculated. Starting in June 2023, ages reported on official documentation ...

South Korea passed a law on Thursday that scraps its traditional method of counting ages and instead adopts the international age-counting system, where age is based on birth date. Set to go into ...

Korea may be doing away with the traditional “Korean age,” which at times results in a two-year age difference with the more widely-used international method of age calculation. January 3, reports ...