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Originally posted by redsing707
Well, it's correct. Eg: if you start school in 2012, in 2017 you would be in 6th grade not 5th
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It still creates issues like this though:
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Article is a summary of the confusing way age is counted in Korea and the way it divides who is higher or lower status when it comes to relationships.
The first concept is 'early year', where if you're born in an earlier month of the year, like February 1989, you'd be considered to be in the same age group as 1988ers and technically older than anyone born in the later months of the same year as you. This especially affects what year students are placed in and who becomes your senior/junior. Someone the same age as you could still be your senior or junior depending on 'early year'.
The second concept is counting the year you were in the womb and automatically being one when you're born. A child born on December 31st in Korea would become two years in old on January 1st because they were one when they were born and the new year counts as an entire year even though his birthday hasn't passed yet.
The system is being criticized lately because younger and younger people are using it as a way to establish power over their peers, even counting down to the differences in months. .
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https://netizenbuzz.blogspot.com.au/...ounts-age.html
Korea has already implemented the 'western' age system according to
this into civil law since 1962 so I don't know why they don't choose one or the other at least instead of dealing with both korean and western age (the korean dude in the radio interview stated that Koreans don't find this difficult at all but still).
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Going back to the AOA year thing though, they celebrated their first anniversary in
2013. If they were using the Korean age system, shouldn't it have been their second anniversary?
You know what I'm taking this too seriously I'm going to ignore Harry's advice and treat AOA as having been active for 5 years come August 2017.
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. They keep bringing up digitals but never albums when Good Luck outsold SISTAR album discography and then they wanna say physicals arent everything 
