Board 8 > What the hell, South Korea?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

How does a misconception like this even exist in an educated country like South Korea? But even more than that, how does it persist when a doctor or scientist can disprove it so easily?

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Dr. Lee Yoon-song is a professor at Seoul National University's medical school and works with the school's Institute of Scientific Investigation. He has conducted autopsies on some of the people who have been described in Korean media as having succumbed to fan death:

"When someone's body temperature drops below 35 degrees, they do start to lose judgment ability. So if someone was hiking and later found dead, that could be part of the reason. But we can't really apply this to fan accidents. I found most of the victims already had some sort of disease like heart problems or serious alcoholism. So hypothermia is not the main reason for death, but it may contribute."

He blames the Korean media for the persistence of the urban legend:

"Korean reporters are constantly writing inaccurate articles about death by fan, describing these deaths as being caused by the fan. That's why it seems that fan deaths only happen in Korea, when in reality these types of deaths are quite rare. They should have reported the victim's original defects such as heart or lung disease, which are the main cause of death in these cases."

How? Media.

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a significant portion of americans thinks global warming is fake, so it's not like we can cast stones!

I asked my (south korean) friend about this the other day, he said it might've started as a way to save electricity.. via fear mongering

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how have you never heard of Fan Death before today

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SpeedYoshi posted...
I asked my (south korean) friend about this the other day, he said it might've started as a way to save electricity.. via fear mongering

Because we all know that fans are the #1 thing that uses the most electricity ever amirite.

Next will be that hair dryers cause spontaneous combustion.

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i hear that leaving computers on overnight causes communism.

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Apparently listening to the radio when going to sleep can cause Fatal Insomnia.

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