Why Everyone in South Korea Is Having Their Age Changed

[Newsweek GIULIA CARBONARO] (전략) So, Korean officials decided to eliminate the two traditional age-counting systems, falling in line with the majority of the world. It was a promise made by President Yoon Suk-Yeol during his election campaign. From Wednesday, the "Korean age" will no longer exist in official documents. 

The pledge was widely backed by the majority of the population. Three-quarters of Koreans wanted the change, according to a poll from January 2022 by Seoul opinion-research company Hankook Research. 

The revision is aimed at "reducing unnecessary socio-economic costs, because legal and social disputes as well as confusion persist due to the different ways of calculating age," Yoo Sang-Bum of the ruling People Power Party told Parliament in December. (후략)

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