Lesson #591

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South Korea scraps its unique age and everyone gets a year or two younger

Everyone in South Korea will take a year or two off their ages this year
July 20, 2023:

Age is just a number, but in South Korea, it has been two (or even three) numbers. The country has long maintained a traditional way of calculating a citizen's age, where babies are born age 1 and the whole country adds a year on January 1 instead of on their birthdays. But the country recently adopted the international standard, so everyone got a little younger overnight. Plus, learn the English expression "imagine that."

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