We have some crazy news for South Koreans: you are officially a year or two younger! Overnight, all South Koreans became younger as the country got rid of its traditional way of counting age. Around the world, all babies start at the age zero when they are born, and turn one year older on their birthday. In South Korea, there were two other ways of counting age. One was the 'Korean age,' in which you started at one-year-old when you were born and turned one year older each year on January 1. There was also the 'calendar age,' in which your age started at zero when you were born, but you turned one year older on January 1. Because of these different ways of counting age, it was often not accurate, and this caused a lot of confusion as to people's ages in the East Asian country. However, they have just changed that, and as of Wednesday, June 28, South Korea has officially adopted the 'international age' system, making every South Korean one or two years younger.
On another note, air quality is still plummeting in the United States as the Canadian wildfires intensify once again. Cities across the Midwest and Northern US continue to have some of the worst air quality in the world, including the major cities of Chicago, Detroit, and Washington DC. The wildfires are still spreading in Canada, with no sign of stopping. Dry, arid conditions persist as firefighters from both Canada and the US heroically battle the flames, but the weather is not helping. Smoke is suffocating the entire area, and sone study suggests that it may have even reached Europe by now.
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