"I'm supposed to be 30 next year [Korean age], but with this new age system, I became two years younger!" Choi Hyun-ji, an office worker who most of the world would call 27 years old, told the ...

The Korean age system is set to change at the end of June, but some aspects of the old system will remain, ... School admissions will also deviate from the international standard.

Until the early 2000s, Koreans born in January or February entered school a year earlier than others in their “year-age” group. That is because the Korean school system used the Chinese Zodiac ...

Children will continue to start elementary school using the country’s third counting system, known as “year age”: Age-counting starts as zero at birth, then adds a year every Jan. 1.

Students attend a class at an elementary school in Dobong District, Seoul, in this Nov. 22, 2021, file photo. Joint Press CorpsStarting as early as 2025, all children in Korea will likely be ...

Another age system exists in South Korea for conscription, school entrance and calculating the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke: a person's age is calculated from zero at birth and a year is ...

In South Korea, “international age” refers to the number of years since a person was born, and starts at zero – the same system used in most other countries.

Aligning the Korean age system with the international norm was one of Yoon’s campaign pledges. ... the mother of a 7-year-old who entered elementary school this year. “In Korean culture, ...

Japan dropped the method from its legal system in 1950, and China hasn’t used it since the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution. North Korea has officially used the common international age method ...

A public school in Los Angeles has become a magnet for Korean families who want their kids to learn English while escaping the intense rigor of the Korean school system. In the U.S., they move ...

South Korea's education minister on Monday said she would step down amid a backlash over her proposal to lower the school entry age, presenting President Yoon Suk-yeol with another in a series of ...

The second is the one the rest of the world uses: starting the count from zero at birth and adding a year on every birthday. Since 1962, that system has been used in South Korea for most legal and ...