Short Stuff: Korean Fan Death

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

There’s a commonly-held belief in Korea that if you fall asleep with a fan blowing on your face you may die in your sleep from it. And while this idea is found nowhere else in the world, Korean culture has come up with some interesting explanations.

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0:39.2	I'm Josh, there's Chuck, there's Jerry.
0:42.6	Welcome.
0:43.6	Yeah, this is a cool one.
0:45.0	I remember hearing about this and it may have been when this article was written by our
0:50.7	friend Debbie Ronca.
0:52.6	But I remember hearing about this and it was the first time I've ever heard about this odd
0:56.9	superstition in Korea and thinking this can't be true.
1:00.7	I know, I keep waiting for Korea to be like, guys, we have this onion like publication
1:06.2	over here that made this up.
1:07.4	It's been a national joke since the 70s.
1:10.1	You guys really took it seriously, but now they seem to have tripled quadrupled, octopled
1:17.0	down on this over the years.
1:19.9	Yeah, so just very briefly, there is a superstition in Korea that if you sleep with a fan on in
1:26.6	your room at night, you could die.
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