Confusing 'Korean age' system to be done away with starting next year

Article: The confusing 'K-Age system' will now be a thing of the past... standardized ages starting next year

Source: Kuki News via Nate

1. [+277, -20] This should've been standardized way earlier. Made no sense that a baby born on December 31st would turn two years old the next day ㅋㅋ

2. [+257, -16] I can put off entering my forties for just a bit longer ㅋㅋ

3. [+237, -15] The Korean age system was only used by our country in this entire world. I'm so glad we're finally getting rid of it.

4. [+24, -1] Finally... Wouldn't you be mad if you were counted as two years old just a week into your birth?

5. [+21, -1] The Korean culture surrounding age always pissed me off

6. [+14, -2] Now there should be no confusion, you're an idiot if you can't count this

7. [+14, -1] The entire world uses the international age system, even North Korea and Japan. It was about time that we fixed this. A baby born on January 15th should only turn one the next year. It never made sense to turn one before their first birthday had even passed.

8. [+14, -3] No more counting people as senior than you just because they were born a few months earlier in the year and having to call them hyung.

9. [+13, -1] The practice of counting the 10 months in mom's belly as a part of your age~ is now a part of history~

10. [+12, -6] This is a good decision, it's going to do big things for our history

11. [+11, -0] And this is how we become friends with people of all ages like the Americans. There were way too many rules about being older or younger and this and that.

12. [+9, -2] How do we tell people our age now? That we're how many years and how many months old?

13. [+6, -1] I know quite a few people who will beat you up if you try to tell them you're not my senior because we were born in the same year ㅋㅋ

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