16: The 2-year-old newborn
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Chinese Culture
In South Korea in the traditional system, you become a year older on New Year's Day regardless of your actual day of birth. So they just age up by year. It looks like they're skipping a year maybe because I know in certain Asian cultures, certain numbers are considered or represent something else and so then they will skip over them. Could it be like Chinese culture that they don't like number four? I know it might be something similar in Korea that they don’t like some number. The number was it the number four in certain cultures is considered bad luck. So they skip that number.
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