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 ...

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 ...

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 ...