Hahaha that’s interesting! And thanks! I kind of had an idea that IDs wouldn’t be checked too thoroughly for some reason.

This involved more discussion than I thought- he and another Korean friend seemed to be a bit confused about it but seem to have come to the conclusion that 18 international age (20 korean age) is the legal age. So she shouldn’t have a problem. They also said that IDs aren’t checked that much anyway.

Haha please do, I’m planning to take my sister to Korea when she finishes high school so I’m wondering how things will work with her being only 18 when she’s done.

Ah, well since I grew up in Australia, I never use any other age, just my international age. I hardly even use my zodiac (I know quite a lot of older Asians or Asians who just say their zodiac when asked for their age). Which is better, since I can still be young that way hahaha

lol. I’m from Asia too.. South East Asia to be more specific.. we too have 2 calendars to follow but we still use the international age when we talk to others.. but never adding up to 2 years.. (cause that’s too much.. lol) just depends on the calendar and the year we were born.

That is hard… I’m going to ask my husband about that and I’ll get back to you!

haha yeah, technically though ahjumma means a married woman, people are usually only using it for those older women with the terrible terrible permed hair and horrible fluro clothes… I will be making a blog post about that one day….

I heard from my mum that with Vietnamese people, we also do the whole “lunar new year” being adding a year thing, but I’m not too sure because since I live in Australia, they don’t really emphasise that and honestly, whenever my parents refer to my relatives ages, they basically go by the international way anyways. So I think maybe other Asian cultures do that too (but maybe not the born = 1 yr old thing)

Yeah.. I really don’t know how it works with all the laws then. Like when they say 19+… do they mean Korean age by birthyear or by lunar new year added age? If so, then it’s basically the same as Australia then since we go by 18. I’ve always been curious, if I was to go to a bar in Korea would they check my ID and what would happen if I was 18 internationally but 19 by Korean age? … Things seem so complicated lol.

I used to think that 30s were old when I was in high school. But now that I’m in uni, and ‘getting older’ so to speak aka more mature, I realise it’s not. And from watching too many dramas, I think of ahjummas as those old ladies with permed hair and no fashion sense.

But you are definitely not my ‘vision’ of an ahjumma!

Yeah it can be 2 years. For me it’s 2 years difference now, but once my international age is 29 it will just be one year difference…..until the new year and then another year added! nooooo