How old are you?

If you are ever asked by a Korean how old you are, don't be so quick to respond.

Each Korean (at least according to the ones we talked to) increments their age every year, on New Year's day. So, if you were born in December, you would be one year old in less than one month. But if your birthday was in January, you would need 11 months before you reached "1 year old". When it comes down to it, Koreans have birthdays like the rest of us (duh) but they all go up in age at the exact same time - January 1st!

This took a lot longer to figure out than you might think. Mystery solved!

In other news, our weekend was pretty quiet as we prepare for our upcoming weekend in Seoul - population 21 million. Saturday night we went to watch some of our buddies play at the P-club. They sound a little better live...