So you want to be younger all of a sudden? Well, forget about updating your wardrobe so you look like a hipster, and that surgery to remove your neck gobbler will not be required, because all you have to do is...move to South Korea!
Yes, South Korea is changing the way they used to total up how many years a person has been prowling around this old earth, and ages there are going down by a year or two!
Kim Da-in told a tv reporter that she "turned 6 and then became 5 again." The new law means that South Korea will be going by the international age-counting method, so people can add up their years accordingly.
Up until now, their age-counting custom counts every baby one year old at birth, and adds another years on January 1. So if you were born on New Year's Eve, say, you were one for a day and then turned two the next day.
South Korea's president, Yoon Suk Yeol, says going with the international system has been a key goal of his government, as it will reduce “social and administrative confusion” and arguments.
Seoul resident Choi Eun-young is proud to be 49 again, so don't go calling her "50."
“The law doesn’t make you biologically younger and there are no real benefits other than feeling good about being called a year younger than before,” she admitted. “But if that’s the international standard, there's nothing bad in following it."
Happy birthday again, young ladies!
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