110: Cultural Post #6

[James Kim]

There are not too many differences with attitudes about time in Korea compared to that of America or any other country. One difference is counting one's age in Korea. When you are born in Korea, you are one years old instead of starting at zero. That is why I am one year older in Korea compared to my age in America. Specifically with time, Koreans do not have any special sayings like "quarter to ten" or "one and a half hours". There is simply just one way of saying the current time, how much time is left, what time to meet, etc. For dates, Koreans use the format of DD/MM/YYYY unlike America. Additionally, there are two different calendars in Korea. One is not used by millenials at all but for everyone older, they use that calendar to refer to their birthdays. For example, my father's birth date is 6/22 in the common calendar. But his birth date in the old calendar is some date in April and that is when my family celebrates his birthdate.