Seoul scraps a centuries-old age-counting system in favour of international standards.
South Koreans have become a year or two younger as a new law aligns the nation's age-counting system with international standards.
The entire population also aged by a year every first day of January instead of their birthdays under the old system.President Yoon Suk-yeol pushed strongly for the change when he ran for office last year. Non-standardised age-counting methods created "unnecessary social and economic costs", he said.
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