am i 15 now?
before sleeping, i made the decision to countdown to the new year with my english hakwon friends, as well as give my friend a headache by talking about how i made my website. man i want to go work on it rn.
in korea, we have three age systems:
- korean age: you are 1 year old when born, you gain age on new year. used by most koreans until the government made international age official, but still used by most koreans
- international age: you are 0 years old when born, you gain age on your birthday. used by almost everyone except korea (probably)
- 연나이 (idk what this is called in english): you are 0 years old when born, you gain age on new year. it's invented for legal and administrative purposes, so i think nobody actually uses it in daily life. except for me, who tried to switch to international age but did not understand 'ppl age on their birthdays' part. how am i supposed to keep track of people's age then? (one of my foreign teachers said they don't and don't care about age anyways)
so yeah, technically i would have been 15 in korean age when we did our countdown, but it's now that i have the realization that i am 15, 14, and 13. that's weird. how the heck am i 15?
the tradition in korea is that you eat 떡국 on new year's day to properly gain age. 떡국 would literally be translated as rice cake soup, which is funny in english. like how on earth do anglophones manage to call 떡 a rice cake? and 어묵 is fish cake in english?
since i made my website yesterday and was coding right before new year, i can say new year, new website.
do i have new year's resolutions?
well i guess imma study and write these later.
new year's resolution 1: study when studying, play when playing, rest when resting