Many Kpop fanatics could have been stunned after they not too long ago entered this global and a few member in their favourite band stated they’ve an age that doesn’t correspond in step with their 12 months of delivery.
J-ho of BTS celebrated his thirty first birthday and, to commemorate the instance, he made a reside with Military. To everybody’s marvel, all over the transmission he had a choice together with his partners Jimin, V and Jungkook, who’re nonetheless enjoyable army provider. Many fanatics had been stunned when Jungkook discussed that, in six months, he would depart at the back of the 20s since he would flip 30. Then again, the idol used to be born in 1997, so, in step with the accounts, this 12 months he would have fun his twenty eighth birthday.
What occurs is that during South Korea there used to be a distinct ‘machine’ to calculate the age of an individual. Even though the program has already been abolished, there are nonetheless those that within the nation stay connected to it. Subsequent, we defined the way it labored.
How the Koreans calculated their age?
In step with the standard “Korean age” machine, which has the time one passes within the uterus, it is regarded as that every one Koreans have 1 12 months on the time in their delivery, and their age will increase yet another 12 months each and every new 12 months of its lunar calendar, irrespective of when their actual birthday is.
Since June 2023, the electorate of South Korea will undertake a unmarried technique to calculate age, following the world machine that determines the age of each and every individual in step with their date of delivery. The program is utilized in all international locations of the sector, apart from in Taiwan. This transformation will affect the age of 1000’s of younger South Koreans.
Then again, there are some Koreans like BTS Jungkook, which to find it peculiar to detach this new method of calculating their age.
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