ohHeung-min Son is two years younger than last week! This strange phenomenon is a reality in South Korea. The Asian country’s government has decided to change the age counting system to include the traditional method. This decision means that South Koreans will be a year or two younger than before, something that directly affects elite footballers like Heung-min Son or Min-Jae Kim. The two footballers will see their age reduced immediately and rejuvenate two years in the country’s legal opportunities.
The decision was made by the South Korean government due to “unnecessary social and economic costs” created by the previous counting system, according to President Yoon Suk Yeol. South Korea counts the years of its citizens differently from the international system. His traditional system also measures age in two different ways. The first method, listed as ‘korean era’, I started counting age from birth. At birth, they are one year old. In addition, every January 1, a year is added to each citizen. Therefore, all South Koreans add years on the same day. In this way, a child born on December 31, automatically on January 1 of the following year, is two years old when in reality he is only two days old.
On the other hand, in South Korea they also have the ‘age of accounting’something useful for him recruitment of citizens to perform military service. In this case, babies are born at 0 years old. But, in the same way, every January 1, all citizens become one year older. The mess of numbers is over and the Koreans are included in the international scheme.
In the case of Heung-min Son, he was born on July 8, 1992. Therefore, in January 1993, he turned two years old. This January South Korea still has the traditional domestic system and the Tottenham star turned 32 years old. However, the footballer, at the behest of the international system, governed by institutions such as the Premier League, has 30 summers. From now on, South Korea and the leagues will count the same and Son will only have one age.
Source: La Verdad
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