SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A parliamentary subcommittee on Tuesday passed a set of bills requiring the use of the international age counting system in all judicial and administrative areas, rather than the unique “Korean age” counting system. The legislative subcommittee of the National Assembly’s legislation and judiciary committee passed revisions to the Civil [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The transition team of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said Monday it will push to scrap the “Korean age” system to reduce the social cost of determining a person’s age in multiple ways. In South Korea, three age systems are currently in use. The most commonly used system is the so-called [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Early this month, Rep. Hwang Ju-hong of the minor opposition Party for Democracy and Peace submitted a bill that has drawn surprisingly keen public attention. The proposed legislation, jointly handed in by nine other fellow lawmakers of rival parties, calls for mandatory use of the standard “international” age system [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are increasingly having discussions over their unique way of calculating age, which has met as much curiosity as the confusion it has generated. Known as East Asian age reckoning, many Asian countries used to follow the practice of understanding age one as the starting point of life. [...]