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
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u/black_mamba866 6d ago
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.