South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies discriminate against older workers, forcing them to retire from main ...

This traditional age counting method puts everyone as a year old at birth and adds a year to their age every Jan. 1 — even if they were born the day before.

Under the “Korean age” system, babies are considered to be one year old on the day they are born, and every January 1, a year is added to people’s ages – regardless of their actual birthdate.

South Korea has been tallying age by birth dates since the 1960s. But while most East Asian countries have scrapped the traditional age-counting system, some have yet to follow suit.

"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 ...

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol made a campaign pledge last year to scrap the nation’s unique system for calculating age because he said that not only was it confusing, but it was also a ...

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.

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 ...

Korea will scrap its traditional method of counting a person's age and officially adopt the internationally recognized system beginning this Wednesday, the Ministry of Government Legislation ...

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.

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.

The Korean age system is set to change at the end of June, but some aspects of the old system will remain, the Ministry of Government Legislation said in a press release Wednesday. While age ...