From what I can gather it is only when sleeping. There was less of it in the newspapers this year. I only heard of about 3 reported cases over the summer.
It's one of the charms of Korea, having young people come up to you and earnestly preach the dangers of the killer fan. It's hilarious, it really is. And no matter how you try to explain that there is no logic to what they are saying they still don't believe you because you are the foreigner and what their parents are saying must be true. It's nuts, I tell you!
One of the kids was telling me about how his teacher dislikes Japan a few weeks ago. This teacher was actually explaining how he would like a great tsunami to wash over Japan and take it beneath the oceans never to be seen again. The student had to tell me this through diagrams and broken English, but got his point across very well. But that teacher was pretty dumb telling his young learners that. It's just not right. There is a serious little man complex running through this country.
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