Korean Age Calculator

Enter your exact date of birth to know your Korean age!




Created by Helen Stark

Helen Stark
Helen Stark

Student of Harvard university, she loves to observe new things about society, she studies Wikipedia more and learns about quantum physics on the internet. She loves dancing and singing songs.

Reviewed by Nick Walker

Nick Walker
Nick Walker

Done PHD of nuclear physics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is always seeking ways to explain science in easy terms. Moreover, he loves coffee & its beans more than his girlfriend (not at all).

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Calculate your exact Korean age with this calculator. If you are confused about how old you have grown in Korean age system, this tool is a perfect match for the task. It needs your date of birth or age at date to let you know the difference between your International and Korean age.

This Is How Our Korean Age Calculator Works!

Our Korean calculator requires only a couple of inputs to figure out results which include:

What To Do?

  • Make your selection from the list

If you selected “Birth Age”:

  • Enter your current age & birth year in respective fields
  • Tap Calculate

If you selected “Current Age”:

  • Select if your birthday has passed this year or not
  • Enter your age
  • Tap Calculate

What You Get!

  • Exact Korean Age

What Is Korean Age?

In the Korean age system, your age is either one or two years more than the actual age. The fact behind it is the period of 9 months during which a baby develops in the womb of the mother. Koreans consider these pregnancy months as 1 year and this is why every child taking birth in Korea is already considered one year old.

With that, Koreans increase their ages by 1 every New Year. This means all of them celebrate their birthdays on New Year's Eve..

Important:

According to the latest news declared in June 2023, the South Korean Government has saved the verdict that:

“Korean age will no longer be considered for official purposes”

It means all natives there will consider their International age for documentation matters and there will be no value for the Korean age system.

What Is My Korean Age?

 

If you are struggling to know how old am I in Korean age, then you can quickly find it with this Korean age calculator. However, if your goal is to do calculations by hand, then you can use the following formulas:

Korean Age +1 Formula:

Korean Age = (Current year – Year of Birth) + 1

Korean Age Birthday Formula:

If your birthday in the current year has passed:

Korean Age = Actual age + 1

If your birthday in the current year has not arrived yet:

Korean Age = Actual age + 2

How To Calculate Korean Age?

How old is Jungkook in Korean age if his international age is 25 years?

Solution:

Famous Korean Singer BTS Jungcook was born on September 01, 1997. With respect to this date of birth:

Jungkook’s International Age:

Jungkook’s International Age = 25 years (to explore more age-related facts for Jungcook, tap age calculator)

Jungcook’s Korean Age:

Now as you know September 2023 has not arrived yet, so we have:

Jungciok’s Korean Age = 25 years + 1 = 26 years

Korean Ages of Other BTS Members:

The following table helps you to figure out the Korean ages of BTS members with their birth dates known. In case you find any difficulty, just put these DOBs one by one in the Korean age calculator and calculate the exact ages in Korea.

Member Date of Birth
Kim Namjoon September 12, 1994
Min Yoongi March 9, 1993
Jung Hoseok February 18, 1994
Kim Taehyung December 30, 1995
Park Jimin October 13, 1995
Kim Seokjin December 4, 1992

Why Is Age Important For Koreans?

Whenever Korean people meet each other, they first about each other’s ages. Then they show respect to each other according to age. This is why age is very important for people residing there.

Korean Age Vs American Age - What’s The Difference?

If you are born in Korea instead of any other country, you will be considered 1 year old. And if you are born on December 31, you will be two years old on January 01. The reason is already mentioned above that Koreans celebrate their birthdays at the start of every year.

On the other hand, your American age increases only on your birthday.

Korean Age Chart:

The following chart will fade your confusion regarding the difference between Korean and International age:

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Citations:

Wikipedia: Korean age, East Asian age reckoning

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