SEOUL: South Korean lawmakers have approved a measure that would revise the way the country tallies a person’s age, ending a system that counted newborns as a year old and meaning that most of its citizens are about to get younger.
The bill passed by the National Assembly on Thursday would scrap the widely used “Korean age” counting standard, which typically added a year or even two to a person’s age compared to the counting system used in most of the world, which starts the clock at zero and begins counting years on the next birthday.
