Is it true that Koreans count a person's age from conception?

For hundreds of years, Koreans have used a different method to count age than most of the world. It's sometimes referred to as lunar age, nominal age, or East ... A person's Korean age goes up a year on new year's day, not on his or her birthday. So when a baby is born on Dec. read more

That is a simplified explanation for the Korean age counting system, but it’s actually bit more complicated than that. While it isn’t 100% wrong that Koreans count a person’s age from conception, people know that a child doesn’t stay in its mother’s womb for a full year (Koreans weren’t and aren’t stupid after all). read more

South Koreans generally refer to their age in units called sal , using Korean numerals in ordinal form. Thus, a person is one sal ("han sal", 한살) during the first calendar year of life, and ten sal during the tenth calendar year. read more

” debate). Thus, once the child is born, he/she is technically about 9 months old. Koreans get a little sneaky here and just round it up to 1 year. read more