SEOUL: Lee Jung-hee was set to turn 60 next year, but South Korea dropped its traditional age counting system on Wednesday, so the Seoul-based housewife just got a year younger — and she's thrilled.
South Korea is the last East Asian country to still officially use a method of calculating age that determines babies are aged 1 at birth, counting their months in the womb as their first year of life.
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