Tottenham Hotspurs star striker Heung-Min Son has been part of a strange but real case of ‘rejuvenation’, deducting a year from his biological and legal age after his country, South Korea, removed a law that had affected the population of that nation.
On June 28, South Korea legally left behind the system that measures the age of its citizens and joined the international system, causing the 51 million people of that nationality, including Heung-Min They are, have one year less to live.
All this, because in the mentioned Asian country, the months of gestation were counted in the sum of the age, that is to say that at birth, a South Korean had one year of life.
To this we must add a strange fact, and that is that regardless of the date of birth, each citizen turned one more year on January 1. In other words, if a baby was born on December 31, the next day she already legally had two years to live.
Leaving South Korea’s age accounting system behind and joining the traditional method of the rest of the world, Heung-Min Son, South Korea’s best-known footballer, went from 31 to 30.
Others who benefit from this are Kim Min Jae, who has just signed for Bayern Munich, and Kang-In Lee, a player for RCD Mallorca.
This decision by the Asian nation undoubtedly helps the career of its footballers since in this sport, many of the players began to lose value in the market after the age of 30.
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