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" I just arrived in South Korea, and my colleague says that I can die if I sleep in a closed room with a fan on. He insists that &amp;quot;fan death&amp;quot; is an actual danger. What the hell? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m told that every Korean believes that fan death is real,&amp;quot; Jeffery Hodges, a professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, tells AF. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve heard as explanation that the belief originated at a time when Koreans were first able to purchase electric fans and used them to such an extent that electrical systems were burdened, so the government spread a rumor that running them overnight was potentially fatal.&amp;quot; Hodges also shared the following passage from the government-issued Cultural Guide for Migrant Workers in Korea: &amp;quot;In some cases, a fan turned on too long can cause death from oxygen deficiency, hypothermia, or fire from overheating.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Some Koreans,&amp;quot; he adds, &amp;quot;give outlandish explanations about how the whirling blades of a fan can sever oxygen molecules.&amp;quot;  So far as AF is able to determine, no scientific literature exists to support the existence of fan death, nor does it seem to be a perceived threat in any other country but Korea. File it \u2014 like the faith of the French in the healing power of Rochebaron cheese smeared on the testicles \u2014 under &amp;quot;Urban Myths, Foreign Dolts.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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