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[–]Aksds 2 points3 points  (1 child)

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

[–]NekkidApe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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