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[Ya-ta Boy]

Newspapers fan belief in urban myth

Another stiflingly hot summer has come and gone in Korea, and with it, the risk of dying by electric fan.
If you've never heard of death by electric fan, you're probably not from here. Every summer, mainstream Korean newspapers carry reports of people dying after sleeping in a room with the electric fan on and the doors and windows closed.


You can read the whole article in today's Joongang Ilbo, J-Style & Weekend section.

[Hardy Boy]

There are several threads about fan death.

Anyone may contribute to them by using the 'search' command.

For example:

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=7865&highlight=fan+death