{"id":51011,"date":"2022-12-09T10:35:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T01:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/all-south-koreans-to-become-younger-as-traditional-age-system-scrapped"},"modified":"2022-12-09T19:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:27:57","slug":"all-south-koreans-to-become-younger-as-traditional-age-system-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51011","title":{"rendered":"All South Koreans to become younger as traditional age system scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June will mark end of system that deemed newborns to be a year old, with a year added every 1 January<\/p>\n<p>South Korea is to scrap its traditional method of counting ages and adopt the international standard \u2013 a change that that will knock one or two years off people\u2019s ages on official documents but could take time to seep into daily life.<\/p>\n<p>South Koreans are deemed to be a year old when they are born, and a year is added every 1 January. The unusual \u2013 and increasingly unpopular \u2013 custom means a baby born on New Year\u2019s Eve becomes two years old as soon as the clock strikes midnight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/all-south-koreans-to-become-younger-as-traditional-age-system-scrapped\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June will mark end of system that deemed newborns to be a year old, with a year added every 1 JanuarySouth Korea is to scrap its traditional method of counting ages and adopt the international standard \u2013 a change that that will knock one or two years o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2474,41,299,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-asia-pacific","category-science","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51029,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51011\/revisions\/51029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}