{"id":1959785,"date":"2023-06-28T19:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-koreans-age-backwards-under-new-law\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T19:33:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:33:17","slug":"south-koreans-age-backwards-under-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-koreans-age-backwards-under-new-law\/","title":{"rendered":"New law makes South Koreans age in reverse."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-koreans-age-backwards-under-new-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1959785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA \u2013 DECEMBER 31: Members of the public gather to celebrate New Year\u2019s Eve at the Bosingak Pavilion on December 31, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/noah-herring\">Noah Herring<\/a><br \/>4:20 PM \u2013 Wednesday, June 28, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>According to a new South Korean law, more than 51 million people found themselves a year or two younger.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>New legislation came into effect on Wednesday which asserted that \u201call judicial and administrative areas\u201d across the country will adopt the \u201cinternational age\u201d system used by most of the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lee Wan-kyu, the minister of Government Legislation maintained that standardizing ages will \u201creduce various social confusions and disputes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The law gets rid of the \u201cKorean age\u201d system that deems South Koreans one-year-old at birth, counting the time spent in their mother\u2019s womb. They will also start making everyone a year older on January 1<sup>st<\/sup>, meaning someone born on December 31<sup>st <\/sup>would be two years old the next day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A separate \u201ccounting age\u201d system that has been traditionally used in the country considers everyone \u201czero\u201d at birth, aging a year every January 1<sup>st<\/sup>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This means that a person who was born June 28<sup>th<\/sup> , 2003, is 20-years-old under the international system, 21-years-old under the \u201ccounting age\u201d system and 22-years-old under the \u201cKorean age\u201d system.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The law was passed by South Korea\u2019s Parliament last December and is expected to \u201cgreatly reduce social costs that have been unnecessary due to the mixed use of age standards,\u201d Lee said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the new standard, the old system will still be used in certain circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, laws on age-restricted products like alcohol or tobacco will be based on the year someone is born, as opposed to the month. This means someone born in January and December of the legal age year would be viewed as being the same age.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This method will continue to be used for South Korea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ufc-star-dedicates-win-to-victims-of-communism-this-fight-is-for-all-the-people-whove-been-hurt-by-marxists-ideologies\/\" title=\"UFC Star Dedicates Win To Victims Of Communism: \u2018This Fight Is For All The People Who\u2019ve Been Hurt By Marxists Ideologies\u2019\">mandatory military service<\/a>, which means people would be eligible based on the year that they were born, not their specific birth date.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe government decided to contain such exceptions even after the revisions go into effect, as it is easier to manage such issues on a yearly basis,\u201d Lee said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many residents welcomed the change, as a poll conducted by the Ministry of Government Legislation revealed that 86.2% of respondents said that they would use the international system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! 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On June 28, 2023, OAN&#8217;s Noah Herring reported that over 51 million people were affected by a new South Korean law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2055,"featured_media":1959786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}