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how does korean age really work ?

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:57 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote
The Japanese are reasonable and don't use this unfair system. Laugh
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:57 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote
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I was born on December 19th and I was 18 (it was summer then), but the police officially took me as 20. I even had to write in my testimonies that I was 20. Gah, I hated that. Laugh

Thanks for the notion toward the Chinese culture, though, I always just assumed they meant January 1 when Koreans told me that all Koreans gained a year with the new year.


lolz~ do you mind if i ask why u were involved with the korean police again??
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:59 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote
I didn't do anything... Laugh I'm not that dangerous...

A guy stole my cell phone in Korea, though, so I sued him. Cool Yupp, dangerous me.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:20 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote
woah! u serious? this is amazing. i thought about the age thing before but i didnt know it was really practiced in most asian countries! wow! i was definitely asian too in my past life.. definitely! lol.. im not making fun. im really amazed. so... im 20 now.. if the same practice was used in the U.S..... Idea that'd mean i'm already old enough to go bar-hopping! oooooo!!! if only! Scratching chin
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:15 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote
I was born in December of 84 (4th!), so this makes me what, almost 24 now? Tongue
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:11 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote
well i think that this korean age system thing has its own advantages...
its very subjective you know... Scratching chin

you can manipulate your age and stuff..
if you are happier by saying you are a couple of years older.. then go ahead~~dance

if you have reached a certain age and you wish you didnt grow older..sweating
(meaning that you want to be younger...)
then you manipulate the age thing again... lolz...
it doesnt make that much of a difference..

but some people... (specially girls i think.. no offense)
lie about their age.. saying they are 3 or 4 or even more years younger...
under the korean system...
you are "technically" not lying if you say you are 2 years younger or 2 years older..
depending on your particular choice...

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:21 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote
Néa Vanille wrote:
The Japanese are reasonable and don't use this unfair system. Laugh


doinkies read that they did use it once, back in ye olden days when they used the old lunar calendar...nowadays they don't though.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:53 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote
Wow! A very interesting... yet confusing topic Unsure

Ok... scratch I was born on Feb. 4, 1984. As of right now, Aug. 10, 2008 (4:35am to be exact Laugh ) I'm 24 years old. Since I'm a February baby, I would be considered an Early 84? or a Fast 84? So... I'm really 26 y.o. over there now, right?

But then somebody mentioned the +1 or +2 full years addition depends on which side of the I'm assuming Chinese New Year's Day you're birth date falls on? In 1984, the Chinese New Year's Day, according to ChineseTools.eu fell on Feb. 2nd, 2 days before mine, so... I should only add 1 year??

Goggle eyes pale sweating faint Nuts!?
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