| 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 | |
| Hanja | |
| 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,[1][2][3] and also to a lesser extent in Japan.[4][5][6]
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