Korea has a different age system that the day you were born you are already 1. And your age will add another year by Jan 1. And if you are born on January (Before the Lunar new year month which is Feb) You are considered a year older. For example your birthday falls on January 13, 2020, You are not considered as a 2020 liner but a 2019 liner. Since Lunar New Year hasn’t happened. If you are familiar with idols, idols like Kai/ Sehun (EXO), JB/ Jackson (GOT7), Daehwi/ Kuanlin (Wanna One) all of them are born the same year in their groups. Kai/ Sehun (94) JB/ Jackson (94) Daehwi/ Kuanlin (02). They should be considered same age friends but they aren’t since Kai, JB, Daehwi were born on January they are considered older and their Lunar age falls on the preceeded year. And Sehun/ Jackson/ Kuanlin are supposed to call them “Hyung” because they were born on a later month of the year.
I don’t know if I explained it well but this is how Korean age system works.
Thank you so much for your help with this! Oops silly me, just because our new year (USA) starts on Jan 1st I assumed the whole planet did, sorry :) ~ So was I right about twins being born a minute apart would be considered 1 year apart, if they were born right before and right after the lunar new year?
Yes ~ It’s like that. They have New Year the same way the whole world has. December 31st as the New Year’s eve. But the Korean age system follows Lunar New Year :)
I love learning new stuff like this, thank you so much for helping me understand. It's very cool of you to take time out of your day for me, I greatly appreciate it!
I don't know if I'm right, so feel free to correct me...I'm not positive about this, but I think I've heard before that in Korea (or some Asian country) that your age is based on the year you're born in, not the month and day. So everyone born in 2019 will turn 1 on Jan 1st, 2020. no matter when their actual birthday was. So if one twin is born on 11:59pm Dec 31st and one on 12:01am Jan 1st the following day, they would be considering a year apart in ages even if they were only separated by a minute. I think that's why the twins are in different grades?