Just two hours after Lee Dong Kil's daughter was born on New Year's Eve, the clock struck midnight, 2019 was ushered in, and the infant became two years old.
The origins of this age reckoning system are not clear. Being one upon birth may be linked to the time babies spend in their mothers' wombs or to an ancient Asian numerical system that did not have the concept of zero.South Korean women destroy cosmetics and cut their hair short to push back against unrealistic beauty ideals.
This may have then shifted to the solar New Year on January 1 as the South began embracing the Western calendar.
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