Comments on: Fan Death Claims Another Victim

By: wonko the sane

wonko the sane — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:30:13 +0000

Ok. Which one of you wrote this on the police website?

“Recently I had a bad breakup with my girlfriend. I started dating again but I think my ex chased her away.

I think by ex has a key to my apartment. I think she has been slipping in while I am out, even possibly while I am asleep. The police were contacted but said they could not do anything.

Today I awoke to find my apartment much different than when I went to sleep. All the windows were closed. There were two electric fans on full blast, pointed at my face. I think sometime in the night my ex slipped in and tried to kill me by fan death.

Could this be considered attempted murder? Her name is Jang Jung-eun. I am afraid that she will attempt again.”

http://www.smpa.go.kr/smpaWeb/.....amp;print=

By: michael

michael — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:13:04 +0000

Dogbertt, WJK has convinced me, Koreans have no willpower, common sense or even minds of their own and Japan has completely influenced all their behavior, like zombies.

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:58:48 +0000

#46, I’m beginning to believe that all of Korea’s problems can be blamed on Japan.

“Beginning to believe”?

[snort]

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:56:40 +0000

many people say…sorry.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:56:12 +0000

#46,

That is where many people the legend began, yes.

I still think the cops are lying. Maybe it’s to earn a bit of cash on the side, maybe it’s to spare the ‘victim’s’ family of the embarrassment of having the world know that daddy had a heart attack while having sex with a 15 year-old prostitute.

By: wjk

wjk — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:36:12 +0000

#46, I’m beginning to believe that all of Korea’s problems can be blamed on Japan.

By: cmm

cmm — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:41:07 +0000

@46 - this is the first logical explanation I’ve ever seen for fan death.

My experience with Koreans who I’ve brought fan death up with is different. They seemed very accepting of the fact that they’d been duped by deep-rooted backwardness. The wikipedia article which, at least in the past, laughs at the country for being the only place on Earth to believe this myth is good to help convince them. We all know how motivating that can sometimes be. Despite that I seem to have been able to convince the Koreans, at least on the surface, I bet when the sun goes down on a hot humid night they still got the fear of the fan in them to some extent.

Anyway, this story has about 50 arguments already, so I’m curious.. Where are YoungRocco2, NetizenKim, and their other Korean apologist friends’ defense of Korea and Koreans here?

By: exkorling

exkorling — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:23:15 +0000

Although I have no solid evidence to support this, I have always believed that the fan death phenomenon started during the Japanese colonial rule in Korea. Once electricity and fans were introduced to Korean homes with the old fashioned ‘ondol’ heating system (charcoal or wood burning directly under the floors) people started dying during the rainy season in the summer when they had died of carbon monoxide poisoning from having the room closed and a fan on with a defective ‘ondol’ system. As all of us know, sometimes Koreans will use the floor heat (even today in Korea) during the rainy season to take the dampness out of the room. In earlier days, the floor would be lit off and the victims would die of carbon monoxide poisoning and the only visible explanation for their deaths had to be the closed room and the fan blowing on them. Is this a “Strange but true” fact or just my ramblings?

By: globalvillageidiot

globalvillageidiot — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:18:02 +0000

#44.

Can’t wait to see the movie!

By: fencerider

fencerider — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:03:42 +0000

Sounds like the plot of a bad mystery short story:
One foreigner, married to a Korean woman who had brow-beaten and belittled him so much that he decided that her death was his only option, decided to kill her and make it look like the fan did it. He prepared and excecuted his plan with great precision by slipping some chloral hydrate into her carefully prepared side dish and switching her usual drink with Bacardi 151. After she passed out, he placed her in repose on the bed and turned the fan on full blast pointed directly at her face and only a few feet away. He then closed all the windows; which he had been sure to seal with weatherizing foam during the winter months. He then used a hypodermic syringe to inject her with air into the femoral artery where a mosquito had bitten her that day. The police, upon seeing the scene, determined the fan to be the killer and no further investigation was assumed. The coroner’s office did a routine autopsy and determined that she died of heart failure; a common side effect of fan death they stated — case closed. The man had his wife creamated immediately so no further investigation could take place. He collected on the 500 million won insurance policies that he took out on her only 6 months before on the same day that he weatherized the windows. He now lives in a seaside villa in Thailand where he enjoys the company of his two new, wives.
And they lived happily ever after.:)