At 17, American teenagers can donate blood, join the military and get into R-rated movies without a parent, but they’re not considered adults for another year. KoreAm turns the big 1-7 this April, which means one more year of childhood!

Here to share in our birthday celebration are a few other things that bear this caught-between-adolescence-and-adulthood number.

The Motion Picture

Association of America created the NC-17 (no one 17 and under admitted) rating in 1990 to differentiate between films for mature audiences and adult films. KoreAm, of course, watches neither.

In Sweden,

“sjutton ocksa!” is a mild swear word, the loose equivalent of “damn!” Literally translated, however, it means “seventeen, too!”

The atomic number of Chlorine is 17. Uh, not that anyone cares.

  Approximately 17 million people in South Korea regularly play online games.

Which means 17 million people have way too much time on their hands.

Everyone knows Dancing Queens are young and sweet and only seventeen.

Feel the beat of that tambourine?

A poem in haiku Has seventeen syllables, Like KoreAm’s years.