An improved international age law for birth, death, and baby’s birth based on the language of the Psy movie ‘Gangnam Style’
The law passed Thursday will standardize the use of international age across all “judicial and administrative areas,” according to the parliament website and documents related to the bill.
The Korean age is 1 year old when a person is born, and 1 year old when they reach New Year’s Day. And a baby born on Dec. 31 would be considered 2 years old the next day.
The revision is aimed at reducing unnecessary socio- economic costs because of legal and social disputes, according to the ruling People Power Party.
That move, which follows a long-running debate over the issue, will bring the country into line with most of the rest of the world and cut down on legal discrepancies that arise from the use of three different systems.
Take Psy from the movie ‘Gangnam Style’. His international age is 44, his calendar year age is 45, and his Korean age is 46.
Another bill introduced by lawmaker Hwang Ju-hong in 2019 argued that apart from sowing confusion, the three methods also caused conflict by “fostering a culture of hierarchy based on age and avoiding certain months for childbirth.”