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A related note:<br>
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Back in the days, in 1967 my family in Andong set up a heater for me in
my room. It was ondol 'heated,' but a bowl of water beside me on the
table would freeze overnight.<br>
<br>
The heater used charcoal briquettes, and seemed to do the job. But one
night, evidently, the wind came from an unexpected direction. I woke
up, barely, in the middle of the night, eyes streaming, mucous pouring,
quite unable to do more than crawl over to the door and fall out onto
the small porch outside.<br>
<br>
I realized later how lucky I had been that those yônt'an briquettes
were so terribly full of impurities. I think it was the sulfur that
had saved me. The newspapers carried fairly frequent stories of others
who hadn't had such luck.<br>
<br>
David McCann<br>
<br>
On 9/18/06 4:02 PM, Edward Massengill wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Just as I was getting a
big kick out of teasing my Korean
wife about the apparent absurdity of “death by fan” (which she
believes) the picture was clouded by references to “cold air” and
“paralysis”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Just a few weeks ago, one
of my best friends told me that
one night recently she inadvertently left her air conditioning system
on very
low. The next morning she woke up with paralysis (hopefully temporary
but still
present after more than a month) on one side of her face. Neither she
nor her
doctors are Korean.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Edward
Massengill</span></font></st1:PersonName><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Amateur Koreanist<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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