Fan death
| Fan death | |
Electric fans sold in South Korea are equipped with timer knobs that turn them off after a set number of minutes. | |
| Korean name | |
|---|---|
| Hangul | 선풍기 사망설 |
| Hanja | 扇風機 死亡說 |
| Revised Romanization | seonpunggi samangseol |
| McCune–Reischauer | sŏnp'unggi samangsŏl |
Fan death is a misconception that people have died as a result of running an electric fan in a closed room with no open windows. While the supposed mechanics of fan death are impossible given how electric fans operate, belief in fan death persisted to the mid-2000s in South Korea, and also to a lesser extent in Japan.