Korea has a different age system than America. When compared to the Western world, your Korean age will be one or two years different depending on what month you were born in. When you are born, babies start life at one years old, however, in Korea everyone also ages up on the Lunar New Year (seollal). The Lunar New Year is held in February. Therefore, if you were born on January, you would be one years old. However, in February you would turn two, even though its only been around a month difference. The more confusing thing is that everyone uses the Korean age system, but in the legal system, they use the Western age system. And because we are talking about age at the moment, Korea also has a different date writing format compared to America. While Americans use a month-day-year format, Korean use a year-month-day format. The Korean format makes more sense to me when writing out the date because I think it is less confusing. I know some Korean friends who immigrated to America and had trouble understanding why Americans put the month in front of the day and year.
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