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40 People Who Were Almost Certainly Corrected
40 people in this crowd are left-handed. South Korea's rate is one of the lowest in the world — not because Koreans are born right-handed more often, but because for generations, using your left hand was considered rude, dirty, or wrong. The 40 people in this crowd survived that.
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South Korea's left-handedness rate is even lower than Japan's — roughly 2-3%, among the lowest ever recorded. The suppression was systematic: until the 1990s, many Korean schools explicitly prohibited left-hand writing. A generation of naturally left-handed Koreans learned to write right-handed, and the reported statistic reflects correction, not biology.