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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject: Breaking News: Kor PhD declares fan death urban legend |
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I was never sure what was going to come first, reunification or this:
The nationalist Hankoryeh has published a column by a Korean medical professor who, after an investigation, has found no scientific basis for the Korean claim that fans can suck oxygen from the air and kill people.
Police report the streets of Seoul are quiet this hour as people come to terms with what has happened.
(via the Marmot)
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:05 am Post subject: |
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�선풍기-죽음�은 미신이다'
The hell you say. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:05 am Post subject: |
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Has hell frozen over?
Next there will be a report that Kimchi is only pickled cabbage!! |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
Has hell frozen over?
Next there will be a report that Kimchi is only pickled cabbage!! |
Swallowed by crack in Earth's crust that opens beneath him... |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:14 am Post subject: |
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Damn!... that blows it for my second job - 'offing' Ks with no suspicion of foul play on the part of the police or coroner.  |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| He's not the first Korean to speak out against fan death. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| The hell you say.... got details? Links? |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:17 am Post subject: |
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I've never met a Korean who believed in fan death -- adult or child.
I have the fan on and the door closed in class all the time. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:20 am Post subject: Re: Breaking News: Kor PhD declares fan death urban legend |
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| The Lemon wrote: |
I was never sure what was going to come first, reunification or this:
The nationalist Hankoryeh has published a column by a Korean medical professor who, after an investigation, has found no scientific basis for the Korean claim that fans can suck oxygen from the air and kill people.
Police report the streets of Seoul are quiet this hour as people come to terms with what has happened.
(via the Marmot) |
This deserves a good bump up, eh. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
Has hell frozen over?
Next there will be a report that Kimchi is only pickled cabbage!! :shock: |
:shock:
Swallowed by crack in Earth's crust that opens beneath him... |
Koreans' Kimchi Adulation, With a Side of Skepticism
Many see beneficial powers in the national dish, and some scientists agree. Critics keep quiet.
"We found that if you were a very, very heavy eater of kimchi, you had a 50% higher risk of getting stomach cancer," said Kim Heon of the department of preventive medicine at Chungbuk National University and one of the authors. "It is not that kimchi is not a healthy food -- it is a healthy food, but in excessive quantities there are risk factors."
Kim said he tried to publicize the study but a friend who is a science reporter, told him, "This will never be published in Korea."
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times (May 21, 2006)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-kimchi21may21,0,1528389,full.story?coll=la-home-world
Kimchi Cancer
http://www.zhion.com/kimchi_cancer.html
Kimchi and soybean pastes are risk factors of gastric cancer.
Results: A decreased risk of gastric cancer was noted among people with high consumption of nonfermented alliums and nonfermented seafood. On the other hand, consumption of kimchi, and soybean pastes was associated with increased risk of gastric cancer.
Nan HM, Park JW, Song YJ, Yun HY, Park JS, Hyun T, Youn SJ, Kim YD, Kang JW, Kim H.
Kimchi and soybean pastes are risk factors of gastric cancer.
World Journal of Gastroenterology 2005; 11(21): 3175-3181
http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/11/3175.asp
Abstract available at the National Center for Biotechnology Information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15929164&dopt=Abstract |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
I've never met a Korean who believed in fan death -- adult or child.
I have the fan on and the door closed in class all the time. |
In five years of living in Korea, and four more years of intimate contact with Korean communities in two other countries, I've never met a Korean who didn't believe in fan death, my wife excepted, and that took work. |
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drumpounder
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
I've never met a Korean who believed in fan death -- adult or child.
I have the fan on and the door closed in class all the time. |
You've got to be kidding! Every student in my high school and every teacher as well as the principal believe in it. I've asked them all.
Can they all be wrong??? |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| I guess folks are less ignorant around here. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
| Damn!... that blows it for my second job - 'offing' Ks with no suspicion of foul play on the part of the police or coroner. |
Damn, wish I would have thought of this--bring along a fan, plug it in, smother your intended victim, and viola, "fan death." Brilliant. |
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hairy sue
Joined: 18 May 2006
Location: weewee heaven
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| fan death is part of Korean CULTURE. |
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