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South Koreans set to become younger as traditional way of counting age scrapped
South Korea on Thursday passed laws to scrap its traditional method of counting ages, making its citizens either 1 or 2 years younger on official documents. Koreans are deemed to be a year old when born and a year is added every January 1. The new laws stipulate using only the international method of calculating from zero at birth.
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