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It reminds me of S. Korean "fan death." The common belief that sleeping with a fan on can kill you by suffocation (among other "explanations") was and is a way
by ksaj 3y ago
It reminds me of S. Korean "fan death."
The common belief that sleeping with a fan on can kill you by suffocation (among other "explanations") was and is a way to convince people to conserve electricity, and nothing more.
The artificial stigma is a way to convince people to not use the more successful strategy against the house.
- latexr 3y ago> is a way to convince people to conserve electricity According to Slate, the belief is older than that: > Internet conspiracy lore sometimes blames the legend on a 1970s-era government campaign to conserve electricity, but in fact these warnings are generations older, dating almost back to the introduction of electric fans to Korea. https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/01/fan-death-korean-moms-think-that-your-electric-fan-will-kill-you.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/01/fan-death-korean-mo... Apparently we don’t know how the myth began. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death#Origins_of_the_belief https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death#Origins_of_the_belie...
- ksaj 3y agoNice. Thanks for the links. We had a Korean ESL student live with us for a few months. I was shocked when he was shocked that we run the fan blowing down the bedroom halls. I had never heard of this Fan Death, and he was having a quandary because he grew up believing that it kills people, and obviously we did it a lot.