{"id":56277,"date":"2023-06-28T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T04:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/28\/south-koreans-become-a-year-or-two-younger-as-country-changes-system-for-counting-ages"},"modified":"2023-06-28T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T04:02:01","slug":"south-koreans-become-a-year-or-two-younger-as-country-changes-system-for-counting-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56277","title":{"rendered":"South Koreans become a year or two younger as country changes system for counting ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some are expected to keep using the old system, 86% say they will adopt the international system in their everyday lives<\/p>\n<p>All South Koreans have instantly become a year or two younger, as the country ditched its traditional \u2013 and increasingly unpopular \u2013 system for counting someone\u2019s age and replaced it with the internationally accepted method.<\/p>\n<p>Under the previous system, the country\u2019s citizens are deemed to be a year old when they are born, and a year is added every 1 January. The unusual custom meant that a baby born on New Year\u2019s Eve would become two years old as soon as the clock strikes midnight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/28\/south-koreans-become-a-year-or-two-younger-as-country-changes-system-for-counting-ages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some are expected to keep using the old system, 86% say they will adopt the international system in their everyday livesAll South Koreans have instantly become a year or two younger, as the country ditched its traditional \u2013 and increasingly unpop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56277","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56278,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56277\/revisions\/56278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}