Merged Fan Death in Korea

Ok, koreans that believe in killer fan theory are stupid. Its a widespread belief making the majority of koreans stupid therefore koreans = stupid :)

I did write j/k..
 
Hyparxis said:
The funny thing is that traditional Westen superstition held that windows should be tightly closed least the "miasmal night vapors" enter and cause disease.
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The flip side of this are the stories about someone's grandmother, who would open all the windows in the house once a month for an entire day, even in the dead of winter, supposedly to exchange all the air in the house. The stories usually end up something like, "...and no one ever got sick."
 
I do that every weekend. Stops the house from smelling. During the week in winter when I do not open the windows the house can smell.
 
There's never any stale air in our house. Everyone leaves the goddamn door open.
 
DonJunbar said:
The first fan death of the year has been reported. They found a man who died in a hotel room. His blood alcohol content was extremely high, and our friend the electric fan was pushing waves of death at him.

Someone else told me there was a special on TV about fan death, the main point being "It's real! Shut up!"

http://imnews.imbc.com/replay/nwdesk/article/2032618_2687.html
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Dibs on the computer!
 
Okay, if someone pays all my expenses I volunteer to fly to the far east and live in a closed room with many fans going for 30 days. Who has contacts in Korea that can make it so?
 
Puppycow said:
OMG. My Japanese wife warned me about fan death. Good to see it's been debunked and now I can prove it to her. I grew up sleeping with a fan on my body during the summer as a means to keep cool. I still prefer it. But she freaked out about it and couldn't believe my ignorance about the grave danger. "Everyone knows about it" she told me. She's seen it in the news many times, so she assumed it was true.
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Wow, a Japanese person who believes it? I'd be curious where she learnt that from, because as far as I can tell it's a Korean phenomenon and not a belief shared by the Japanese. However, I do know Koreans have been exporting the belief to other countries slowly.

onemind said:
Ok, koreans that believe in killer fan theory are stupid. Its a widespread belief making the majority of koreans stupid therefore koreans = stupid :)

I did write j/k..
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You should probably quit before you swallow your foot.
 
DonJunbar said:
Wow, a Japanese person who believes it? I'd be curious where she learnt that from, because as far as I can tell it's a Korean phenomenon and not a belief shared by the Japanese. However, I do know Koreans have been exporting the belief to other countries slowly.
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I was curious myself. My wife is Japanese, and she had never heard of it before she came to Korea.
 
Starthinker said:
Okay, if someone pays all my expenses I volunteer to fly to the far east and live in a closed room with many fans going for 30 days. Who has contacts in Korea that can make it so?
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No need, no need. I have already performed said experiment a few years in a row, nearly every day during the summer.

Maybe my fan isn't strong enough. Hmm.
 
ARubberChickenWithAPulley said:
I was curious myself. My wife is Japanese, and she had never heard of it before she came to Korea.
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Some, although not all, Japanese believe in "fan death." I first encountered it while living in a Japanese dormitory while on foreign exchange in the early 90s. A number of my Japanese dorm mates swore it was true. Of course, other Japanese guys and the foreign exchange students mocked them for it.
 
DonJunbar said:
Wow, a Japanese person who believes it? I'd be curious where she learnt that from, because as far as I can tell it's a Korean phenomenon and not a belief shared by the Japanese. However, I do know Koreans have been exporting the belief to other countries slowly.
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She says her sister-in law (not my sister, her brother's wife). Maybe it's not quite so common here, but it exists. There is an ethnic Korean minority in Japan, so presumably this is a meme that has spread.
 
I spent the night with a fan once but I didn't die and neither did she...but it felt like we did.
 
ARubberChickenWithAPulley said:
No need, no need. I have already performed said experiment a few years in a row, nearly every day during the summer.

Maybe my fan isn't strong enough. Hmm.
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But did you do it on a live network feed with the news following your progress so they could captivate viewers with a possible live death captured for their entertainment?
 
I've heard this from a friend... his explanation was that the fan dehydrates your body while you sleep, and I've believed it ever since. But I guess that I'm wrong. I must try this tonight!
 
I have an extremely hard time sleeping without a fan on me year round. Theres certainly some truth to fans causing dehydration. I more or less have to chug a bottle of water in the morning to get my body back in working order, I imagine a person more sensitive to the effects of dehydration would want to avoid having a fan blowing directly on them all night unless they were in an extremely humid environment. But even if someone died of dehydration with a fan contributing to water loss, it wouldn't be fan death, it would be death by dehydration with a fan contributing to the water loss and there would have to be other factors involved.
 
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