With New Year just round the corner, astrologers in South Korea are debating over a strange issue of what day truly marks the start of the zodiacal New Year.

According to the Korea Times, the fight is whether the zodiacal New Year starts on Tongji (Dec. 22) or Ipchun, (Feb. 4).

Lee Sang-yup, a member of the association, believes that Tongji, or the winter solstice, is the official New Year.

"There is 45-day difference between Tonji and Ipchun. It means 6 million people born during that period could have been given different fortunes."

"Moreover, any people who had their fortune read during the term could have had different fortunes told," Sang-yup added.

According to Lee, the confusion likely arose from an incorrect translation from a key fortunetelling text that placed the start at Ipchun and not at Tonji.

The interpretation is used to read the fortunes of millions of people in the country and the confusion has reportedly put them at risk.