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[happy one]

My beloved Korean boyfriend (who i'm planning to marry) showed his true colors last night... i told him i need to get a fan since summer is well and truely here, and he replied "ok, let's get one at the weekend...but make sure you open the doors and windows, because the fan might kill you." Completely straight faced, not a smidge of sarcasm, he actually meant it. After managing to contain my laughter i asked him how a fan can kill me. Apparently your body gets so cold, just like if you spent the night outside on a cold mountain! He had no explanation how the air conditioning hasn't killed us yet, but apparently the doctors in the news told him these scientific facts and just last week 4 people died of fan death! After an hour of arguing back and forth, he fell asleep, while i lay awake contemplating how this type of logic would effect our relationship in the future.

Could someone please send me a link explaining how stupid his fan death argument is~ the more the merrier! I want to hit him with good hard Western evidence when he gets home tonight! thanks!

[Bibbitybop]

The article on wikipedia about it should suffice. The Marmot's Hole had a blog entry and link about it last week.

[happy one]

Excellent! Thank you!

[newteacher]

You must be new.

[Faunaki]

This is easy. Don't argue about. My Khusband insists on the same thing. There is no changing their minds. Just open the window a little and it will suffice. Problem solved.

[Underwaterbob]

Wait until he falls asleep then close all the windows and turn on the fans. When you wake up alive maybe he'll change his mind.

If you don't wake up, well...

[happy one]

I'm not new, just surprised because he's normally so logical.

Faunaki, how did it go meeting the parents? Have they accepted you?

[victorology]

I would also let it go. Is it really worth finding things to fight about in a relationship?

[spliff]

I don't understand why anybody would run a fan w/ the windows closed.

[Gaber]

I used to because my crappy first year apartment had holes in the mosquito netting. My land lady walked passed one night and heard my fan on. She freaked out and called my school. My manager seemed a little embarresed when I pressed her on the reasons for not sleeping with the fan on etc. She just ended up saying "we just don't do that in korea". Ended up getting my mosquito net fixed at least.

[happy one]

It's not a huge fight or anything, we were only mucking around. I don't see any harm in looking at both sides of the subject

[orosee]

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[Otherside]

[KOREAN_MAN]

Tell your boyfriend that you're blood type O and fan death only affects people with blood types A and B. Tell him that you read it in a Korean newspaper. Problem solved.