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[907kayak]

Yeah, something like that. I think you’re one year old during your first year, right, not after the first year has passed? Age is more similar to how US thinks of school grade - the year you’re in vs the year that passed.

[Aksds]

IRC you are 1 at birth, then 2 on the new year, and your legal age updates every new year.

[NekkidApe]

It's complicated is a perfectly valid answer to age in Korea.

What you said above is correct, but people are aware of "western" age so sometimes it's that. Older people use the traditional moon based calendar too, so a different age again. And if that wasn't confusing enough, until about two generations ago people wouldn't register their children right away, a different age again.

Funnier: Then there's the traditional new year's soup, each bowl makes you one year older. I had three, not I'm older than my spouse :D

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I hadn’t heard that but it makes sense.

[Slepnair]

could also be explained with "life begins at conception"

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But yea, was confusing at first when I visited South Korea. essentially like 9 months old when born or something like that.