South Koreans Are All Set to Become a Year or So Younger

(Bloomberg) — South Korean lawmakers approved a measure that would knock a year or so off everyone’s age. The law would end a system that counted newborns as a year old.

The National Assembly passed a bill Thursday that would scrap the country’s widely used “Korean age” counting standard, which typically added a year or even two to a person’s age. In most of the world, a person’s age starts at zero at birth.