The National Assembly of South Korea passed a set of bills requiring the use of the international age counting system in all judicial and administrative areas, rather than the "Korean age" one.
Under the revisions to the Civil Act and the General Act on Public Administration, Seoul’s multiple age systems will be unified into the internationally recognized system, in which age is based on birth date.
In South Korea, three age systems are currently in use. The most commonly used system is the Korean age, under which a person turns one year on the day they are born and adds a year on the first day of the new year.
Meanwhile, the second system is the internationally recognized system, whereby a person's age is determined according to their birth date, while the third system adds a year to a person's age on the first day of the new year.
On his part, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol pledged to unify the age system as one of his campaign promises.
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