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saidthatsocialconsensusneedstobegivenpriority.Inaddition,ProfessorHanSe-eokfromDong-aUniversity
Department of Public Administration said, “With the government publicity, the newly implemented road
name address system in Korea has been successfully settled down and replaced the old address system. Active
publicityandcampaignsareneededtopromotetheuseofaninternationalagecountingsystem.”
ThenewlyelectedPresidentYoonSuk-yeolpledgedtomaketheuseofthe
Shinmun
international age counting system mandatory for all administrative matters
througha59-secondvideocliponhisYouTubechannelonJanuary17,2022.
Kyunghyang
Duringtheelectioncampaignperiod,YoonpromisedtoabolishtheKorean
age counting system and implement the international age counting system,
ⓒThe
thus unifying the legal and customary standards of age. Earlier, People
Power Party (PPP) policy headquarters once said, “Age is a meaningful
▲Koreanagemethodmaysoonchange
criterion for people's life, such as taxes, medical care, and welfare.” If the
asthecountry’snewPresident
YoonSuk-yeolispushingforthis
standardofageisunified,itisexpectedtomeetinternationalstandardsand
centuries-oldmethodofcountingtobe
abolished.
avoid unnecessary confusion to explain the Korean age counting system to
foreignersmultipletimes.
TheComplicatorandtheConnector:TheBETY
AlthoughtheconceptofBETYmaygowiththeeducationlawrevision,its
ⓒYouTube/@Oking(obm1025)
effectineverydaylivesremainsuniqueinKoreanculture.Theterm“jokbo
breaker,” which means that BETY destroy the age hierarchy, is commonly
usedineverydaylife.Also,jokbobreaking,complexseniorityofBETYare
stillahotpotatoonsocialmediaandTVprograms.Therearemanyvideos
telling how to solve the complex dominance order, resulting from BETY,
withthetitle“Mopping-upBETY”onsocialmediaandYouTube.
▲Therearemanycontentsaboutthe
BETYcultureonthesocialmedia.
Meanwhile,resolvingtheBETY
Potato>
issue can be a key to solve the confusion from the standardization
ⓒMedium/
of counting age. As the age system is to be unified to international
age, where age is counted by birthdays, everyone will gain their age
on each one’s birthday. This means that ages will vary throughout
the same academic class. Moon Chan-ki, a lecturer in Psychology
at Leeds Beckett University said that this might bring disarray
▲ArtistLeeHae-Kangexpressedthe
complicationofBETYthroughhisartwork.
in age hierarchy arrangement and claimed that Korean hierarchy
culture will still be hard to ease off. In this circumstance, BETY, lying between the two ages, can work as a
connecting link. Artist Lee Hae-Kang held his exhibition “Mashed Potato,” about BETY, describing them as
aprotagonistandconnection,in2019.Hedrew12animalsrepresentingagesineasternsocietyandappliedan
animationtechniqueslowlychangingonetoanother.HeexpressedthatBETYislikea“manonaboundary”or
a“middleman”inKoreanhierarchicalsocietyandthattheyhavethepowertoblurtheboundaryandatthesame
time to unite the two elements. In this vein, to shed some light on the BETY issue can be a way to relieve the
unnecessarystrictnessofthehierarchicalculture.
25
MAY 2022
saidthatsocialconsensusneedstobegivenpriority.Inaddition,ProfessorHanSe-eokfromDong-aUniversity
Department of Public Administration said, “With the government publicity, the newly implemented road
name address system in Korea has been successfully settled down and replaced the old address system. Active
publicityandcampaignsareneededtopromotetheuseofaninternationalagecountingsystem.”
ThenewlyelectedPresidentYoonSuk-yeolpledgedtomaketheuseofthe
Shinmun
international age counting system mandatory for all administrative matters
througha59-secondvideocliponhisYouTubechannelonJanuary17,2022.
Kyunghyang
Duringtheelectioncampaignperiod,YoonpromisedtoabolishtheKorean
age counting system and implement the international age counting system,
ⓒThe
thus unifying the legal and customary standards of age. Earlier, People
Power Party (PPP) policy headquarters once said, “Age is a meaningful
▲Koreanagemethodmaysoonchange
criterion for people's life, such as taxes, medical care, and welfare.” If the
asthecountry’snewPresident
YoonSuk-yeolispushingforthis
standardofageisunified,itisexpectedtomeetinternationalstandardsand
centuries-oldmethodofcountingtobe
abolished.
avoid unnecessary confusion to explain the Korean age counting system to
foreignersmultipletimes.
TheComplicatorandtheConnector:TheBETY
AlthoughtheconceptofBETYmaygowiththeeducationlawrevision,its
ⓒYouTube/@Oking(obm1025)
effectineverydaylivesremainsuniqueinKoreanculture.Theterm“jokbo
breaker,” which means that BETY destroy the age hierarchy, is commonly
usedineverydaylife.Also,jokbobreaking,complexseniorityofBETYare
stillahotpotatoonsocialmediaandTVprograms.Therearemanyvideos
telling how to solve the complex dominance order, resulting from BETY,
withthetitle“Mopping-upBETY”onsocialmediaandYouTube.
▲Therearemanycontentsaboutthe
BETYcultureonthesocialmedia.
Meanwhile,resolvingtheBETY
Potato>
issue can be a key to solve the confusion from the standardization
ⓒMedium/
of counting age. As the age system is to be unified to international
age, where age is counted by birthdays, everyone will gain their age
on each one’s birthday. This means that ages will vary throughout
the same academic class. Moon Chan-ki, a lecturer in Psychology
at Leeds Beckett University said that this might bring disarray
▲ArtistLeeHae-Kangexpressedthe
complicationofBETYthroughhisartwork.
in age hierarchy arrangement and claimed that Korean hierarchy
culture will still be hard to ease off. In this circumstance, BETY, lying between the two ages, can work as a
connecting link. Artist Lee Hae-Kang held his exhibition “Mashed Potato,” about BETY, describing them as
aprotagonistandconnection,in2019.Hedrew12animalsrepresentingagesineasternsocietyandappliedan
animationtechniqueslowlychangingonetoanother.HeexpressedthatBETYislikea“manonaboundary”or
a“middleman”inKoreanhierarchicalsocietyandthattheyhavethepowertoblurtheboundaryandatthesame
time to unite the two elements. In this vein, to shed some light on the BETY issue can be a way to relieve the
unnecessarystrictnessofthehierarchicalculture.
25
MAY 2022
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