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16: The 2-year-old newborn

Lateral with Tom Scott

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How Do You Know When You Are One?

In the most common Korean system, you start at age one at birth. If that happens a few minutes before midnight or New Year's Eve, you are almost immediately two years old after birth. There is a separate system used for things like the mandatory military service in Korea where they do count from zero.

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