When Jonathan — a Korean who asked to be identified by his English name — turned 20 years old four years ago, his parents took him to Seoul National University Hospital, where tests showed his IQ was around 70, far below the typical adult average of about 100. The diagnosis arrived less as a clinical data point than as a life-altering sentence. “I think my parents knew about my condition since elementary school but didn’t tell me until they took me to a clinic when I was 20,” Jonathan told The Korea Times. “Learning I had borderline intellectual functioning shattered me. I blamed myself, wondering if that was all I would ever amount to.” Jonathan is one of an estimated 6.95 million people in Korea believed to have borderline intellectual functioning. The figure is large because, statistically, about 13.59 percent of the population falls within the IQ range used for such assessments. The result is a gray zone of cognitive precarity — a “borderline” population estimated to comprise nearly 14 percent of the general public. These individuals exist in a policy vacuum, function
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