[ SECRET POST #5821 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5821 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I spent a year teaching young kids at a private English academy in Seoul years ago, and I still remember the day one of my 7 year olds came to school crying because he'd just learned about the mandatory military service and didn't want to be a soldier, and a girl in the class being very adamant that he had to.

That kid is 21 now (by Korean counting) and probably doing his service as we speak. :\

[(Anonymous)]

By Korean counting?? Pardon my ignorance, I don't understand.

[(Anonymous)]

In Korea they consider your moment of conception as your "first" birthdate, to my understanding. To shorthand it, I believe they add a year to the day you were born
IE. If you're born on Jan 1, 2000? On January 1, 2001 you would be considered 2 years old, not 1 year old.
Correct me if I'm wrong!

[(Anonymous)]

comment OP

That's the basic idea-- you're 1 year old when you're born, and then your age ticks up again every Lunar New Year. So the seven year old class I was teaching, they were five or six years old by Western counting. Kindergarten, basically.

I had one kid with a February birthday (before Lunar New Year, so she turned 2 when she was like 2 months old) who was my oldest 7, and one with a March birthday (after Lunar New Year, so she turned 2 at like 11 months old) who was my youngest.