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That's dumb, the baby is obviously ~9 months old when born.
Isn't this legitimately how Koreans count their age? Like, I think you pop out as a 1 year old according to their age system.
From what I understand, they've been using the 'normal' system for most legal things since the 60s, and that was just how they socially talked about age, until it was abandoned in 2023.
The old system also added a year on New years, not on your birthday. Meaning a baby born 2 days ago would be 2 years old if they were born on December 31. Apparently, laws do still keep that standard for some age based regulations, like school, drinking age, voting age, and draft. Which kind of makes sense; everyone born in X year gains those things at the same time. A less arbitrary cut off date for schools, no awkward math whe checking IDs, just born in '04, you're good.'
Still seems confusing having 3 ages in different contexts though.
Thanks for the context!
I went to school with a couple of Korean international students who explained their age hierarchy to me once, but I didn't really grasp the intricacies of it.
Fun fact: up until fairly recently, babies weren't often named until at least their second birthday. Hence, headstones with "baby", "junior", etc. littering pioneer graveyards and similar.
That kinda makes sense. Giving a name before knowing how the childs behaviour, temperament or similar is rather unintuitive. Also probably makes the loss a bit less hard if the child dies before it's at least a year old, which is probably the root cause for that costume.
It wasn't because of a hesitance to misname them. It was purely because of mortality rates. I appreciate your optimism, though. 🥹
It was also counted from the beginning of the year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning but they oficially switched in 2023
Oh that's kind of sad. It must have been pretty convenient to have everyone from the same year legally age up at once, from a bureaucratic standpoint at least.
Aren't they getting one year every 1 January or something like that?
This has always bothered me about the bullshit pro-life argument. If life starts at conception, then clearly we're making people wait an additional 9 months to vote.
There is actually one problem with counting age from birth: premature babies are behind on everything! Of course we could correct that by saying that they were minus three months old when born (or however early they are).
That's it, we'll have to get rid of democracy now, there's too many flaws.
We never had a proper democracy, so consider it done/moot.