0008 Possibly living persons: 1.2 times Korean life expectancy
The Korean version is authoritative. This page was translated by AI (Claude) and has not yet been checked by a person. 한국어 원문
This settles the first item in “To check” in 06-Relation network section 15.
- Private relations of other living people start sealed (06-Relation network section 9 item 3). The number of years that decides who counts as a “possibly living person” is set at 1.2 times Korean life expectancy.
- Current value: 83.7 years (Statistics Korea, “2024 Life Tables”, published 2025-12-03) × 1.2 = 100.44, rounded up to 101 years.
- Order of decision: confirmed death → confirmed birth year + 101 years → date of the source record + 101 years → if unknown, living.
- When new life tables come out, the value is updated. The meaning stays the same, so no new decision record is written; only the table in 06-Relation network is updated (its version goes up).
Documents updated: 06-Relation network section 9 (v0.2).
- Decision of the head of Nodeone (2026-10-12): “Korean average life expectancy + 20%.”
- Using only the average would open records of the roughly half of people who live longer than average while they are still alive. Adding 20% also covers the rare cases of people who live past 100.
- Why round up: a record wrongly closed can be opened later, but a record wrongly opened cannot be undone.
- Most records are Korean, so we use the Korean life tables.
Other options
Section titled “Other options”| Option | Why not chosen |
|---|---|
| A fixed 100 years | The head of Nodeone chose to tie it to life expectancy. It follows automatically as lifespans grow |
| Life expectancy as is (84 years) | Records of people who live longer than average would open |
| Separate values by sex (women 86.6 years) | Source records do not always state sex. One value is simpler |
Where it has effect
Section titled “Where it has effect”- arkive: add this order to scope filtering (arkive to-do). People in old documents from 1600 all become “not living” at step 3.
- secretary: most people in recordings are “possibly living” at step 3. This points the same way as the current rule (another person’s voice belongs to that person).
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