Fan Death

Every culture has the myths and popular tales that have little or no grounding in reality. We would call them old wives tales, fables or perhaps myths. Korea is no exception.

Fan death, as it turns out, is what happens to you if you go to sleep with a fan blowing in your face. Since your breathing is more shallow when you are asleep, the fan will stifle your breathing to the point of death. Many Koreans hold this to be true since someone did a study once, or so we hear.

Another one is running backwards. Emily and I have started running at this track by our apartment where several people from the community also run, jog or walk. We will often see people running backwards (as much as one can run backwards) which is a little confusing. Upon futher investigation, we learned that running backwards apparently gives 10 times any benefit that running foward does. Who knew?