South Korea has turned back time and made its people younger – sign me up | Claire Cohen

Is age really just a number? Post-pandemic, it's easy to feel like we've been robbed of precious years

Imagine someone offered you the chance to take a couple of years off your age - no catch, no need to hide your passport or cross your fingers that no one checks up on your LinkedIn claim to have graduated in 2008.

You'd jump at it, wouldn't you? The people of South Korea certainly have: their government has just given its citizens the gift of youth, making them all a year or two younger overnight.

Claire Cohen is a journalist and the author of BFF? The Truth About Female Friendship