<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">It's only been recently that those charcoal briquets seem to have disappeared. I remember seeing briquets outside doors in the alleys around where I stay in Seoul but, come to think of it, haven't seen too many lately. I'll bet they're still used in a lot of places.<br>Don Kirk<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 12/9/11, McCann, David <i><dmccann@fas.harvard.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: McCann, David <dmccann@fas.harvard.edu><br>Subject: Re: [KS] What is the history and use of charcoal in South Korea?<br>To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" <koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><br>Date: Friday, December 9, 2011, 6:34 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1756722027"><div>Let us not forget the charcoal briquets, yônt'an, used for home room heating in the 1960's. Extremely
dangerous, as I discovered one night when the prevailing winds in Andong shifted and the gas came near killing me. Many fatalities did occur in those years.<div><br></div><div>David McCann</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 9, 2011, at 1:50 PM, <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=Afostercarter@aol.com">Afostercarter@aol.com</a>> <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=Afostercarter@aol.com">Afostercarter@aol.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="yiv1756722027Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><font size="4">In case your interest in charcoal also extends north
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<div><font size="4">of the DMZ, you may care to take a deep breath,</font></div>
<div><font size="4">cover your mouth, hold your nose and contemplate</font></div>
<div><font size="4">North Korea's surely unique (in 2011) contribution
to</font></div>
<div><font size="4">energy inefficiency, forest depletion, and air
pollution</font></div>
<div><font size="4">- three hits in one! - namely, charcoal-burning
trucks:</font></div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/03/03/2010030301014.html"><font size="3">http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/03/03/2010030301014.html</font></a></div>
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<div><font size="4">They actually boast about this, as I noted some years
ago:</font></div></font></div>
<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/DH14Dg01.html"><font size="3">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/DH14Dg01.html</font></a></div>
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<div><font size="4">A more academic account, with pictures, is at</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://japanfocus.org/-Peter-Hayes/3233">http://japanfocus.org/-Peter-Hayes/3233</a></font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Unbelievable but true, like much else about the
DPRK.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Kind regards</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Aidan FC</font></div>
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<div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;"><b style=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black;" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Aidan
Foster-Carter</font></span></b></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;"><font size="3"><i style=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black;" lang="EN-GB">Honorary Senior Research
Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK</span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black;"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;"><i style=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:8pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:8pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;"><font size="3"><em><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black;" lang="EN-GB">E</span></em><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black;" lang="EN-GB">: <a rel="nofollow" title="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com" ymailto="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=afostercarter@aol.com">afostercarter@aol.com</a><span style=""> </span><a rel="nofollow" title="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com"
target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=afostercarter@yahoo.com">afostercarter@yahoo.com</a><span style=""> </span><em><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;">W</span></em>: <a rel="nofollow" title="http://www.aidanfc.net/" target="_blank" href="http://www.aidanfc.net/">www.aidanfc.net</a> <span style=""> </span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;"><font size="3"><i style=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;" lang="EN-GB">W in Korea:<span style="">
</span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http://aidanfc.net/index.html"><font face="Times New Roman">http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http://aidanfc.net/index.html</font></a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB"><em></em></span></font> </div><div style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0cm;"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB">______________</span></font><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Cambria;COLOR:black;"></span></div></div>
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<div>In a message dated 12/9/2011 09:13:54 GMT Standard Time, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:i@knigel.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=i@knigel.com">i@knigel.com</a>
writes:</div>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:blue 2px solid;PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Thank
you all for helping me with finding out if the myth behind the<br>Tancheon
(The Stream of Charcoal) was actual Korean folklore. I have,<br>unexpectedly,
become obsessed with charcoal. I hadn't realised how<br>much charcoal was, and
continues to be, used in Korean society. I've<br>been learning about the
charcoal kiln saunas, "white charcoal',<br>charcoal air fresheners, and lumps
of charcoal over gates to fend off<br>evil spirits from birthing women;
however, I'm having a bit of trouble<br>finding out some of the other historic
details in English about<br>charcoal. I'm wondering if any of the
anthropologists, or anyone else,<br>could direct me to some history or
folklore on charcoal in Korean<br>society. I'm interested in any tidbit or
fascinating fact. I<br>appreciate your help a
lot.<br><br>Kindness,<br>Knigel<br><br></font></blockquote></div>
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