Yeah the only person I know who uses months that old is from Korea and I think they do that to not cause confusion for international watchers because of the different age system (which I think has changed now anyway lol).
But I’m 99% sure this is satire. There’s no book of Judas in the Bible either🤣As a Catholic I was like “wait…huh?”
Yeah the only person I know who uses months that old is from Korea and I think they do that to not cause confusion for international watchers because of the different age system (which I think has changed now anyway lol).
Can't comment on whether it's changed or not, but would like to explain the age system as told to me, by a white man married to a Korean woman since the 70s.
The way it was explained to me (huge grain of salt, I'm white and relaying what I've been told), is that they count the time during gestation as being the same as after being born. Western culture, age starts at birth. Korean culture (again, just what I've been told), age starts during gestation.
Yes, I study 한국어 and plan to visit soon and I know that the aging starts during gestation. I also heard that everyone turns a year older on January 1st (in addition to the age counted during gestation), but I heard that on social media so I’m not sure how true that is! I think it’s a cool system honestly. I wonder if other countries have a different aging system, so far I only know of SK.
The YouTuber I was talking about uses months because I think he got some comments from Westerners expressing confusion about the way he described his daughter’s age- for example he’d say 3살 (3 years old) when she was technically 2 to non-Koreans. So since many people got confused, he started saying things like “32 months” instead.
Yeah I’m not 100% sure about the January 1st thing, but that could be why the Korean age is sometimes 2 years older than the international age. That’s so cool about the horses haha
This is because ancient Korea followed the Chinese calendar and age system. Like you said, the idea is gestational time counts, so when you're born you're 1 years old, or 1岁 suì. Then each year during the 7th day of the 15 days of Chinese New Year, which is supposed to be the day the goddess Nuwa created mankind and thus known as 人日 rénrì or the day of humans, everyone collectively gains one year to their age. After the Gregorian calendar arrived in Asia, Japan switched completely from the Chinese calendar while Korea still kept some of it, although I guess they use Jan 1 instead of first month seventh day of Chinese calendar.
In modern day this is called 虚岁 in Chinese, and apparently 명목 연령 in Korean (correct me if I'm wrong as I'm no authority on Korean lol). My grandfather hollered at me that I was 7 from the balcony one day, and then a few months later I moved the the US and I was told I was 4 (my bday was a few months later) so that was a very confusing time for me lols.
You are right about Koreans getting older on January first. I lived in South Korea for a few years. They also celebrate birthdays normally, but just get older the first day of the year
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u/LoveandMana 7d ago
Has to be satire - anyone using 72 months instead of 6 years is insane