In June 2023, South Korea will start using the internationally recognized method of calculating age for all official documents rather than the current "Korean Age" system Abigail Adams is a Human ...

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 ...

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 ...

The population of South Korea became younger overnight. Residents awoke Wednesday with reset age clocks that shaved up to two years off their birth date. The new numbers came courtesy of a change to ...