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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know but just came on to say I am pretty sure it will be considered the 2nd birthday, since Koreans count you as 1 when you are born. And then I think all the Koreans have antoher birthday on new year's day, also?[/quote]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/28/south-koreans-become-a-year-or-two-younger-as-country-changes-system-for-counting-ages

They are trying to change that. [/quote]

As a Korean, I can say that we only have one birthday every year just like everybody else. Dohl is an age system built on birthdays. Dohl is the first birthday, Dudohl is the second birthday, Sedohl is the third birthday and it goes on. So if you say "Dolh-jaengi", it basically means one-year-old baby. 
But we have another age system built on birth years. So Dolh-jaengi can be one or two years old depending on birth years. Why do we need to consider birth years? Because Korean is a language that you have to conjugate verbs / pronouns / appellations according to someone's age. If someone is older than you, you have to change how to call her or him. It feels little unfair to consider someone who is just a month old as your elder, but we need some standard. That's when birth years come in to give people some criteria to consider someone as their senior or junior.
It is really complicated to explain how things work in Korea, but we know difference between children with early birthdays and late birthdays. [/quote]

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