Fan-death

So here's a funny little tid bit about Koreans. When we arrived we had a fan in our apartment. Despite the easy workings of a fan we had a hard time figuring out how to properly make our fan work because of all the Korean characters. We were finally able to get it to work, but sometimes it randomly shuts off on us. We figured this was because it was a crappy fan. We were wrong. The fan actually has a timer on it, so we were setting the timer and then the fan would turn off at the end of the timer. We thought the whole timer thing was dumb, but we just recently found out why there is a timer on all Korean fans. Koreans believe in something called fan-death. HAha, just writing it makes me giddy with laughter. So anyway, they believe that if you sleep with a fan on in a room with all the windows and doors closed that it will suck all the air out of the room and you will die. Hahaha! I have never ever heard such a thing?!? So they are paranoid about fans, but still use them because of the timer. Oh the funny ways of these Korean people.