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Holy sheep shit batman. This story freaks me out. I did not know this was a wide spread thing in Korea.

I had an argument with my wife about this subject years ago. She is from S. Korea and I am from the US. She had yelled at me because I left a fan on and fell asleep. When she got home from work and realized what happened she freaked out and told me I could die that way. At the time I remember thinking that she was absolutely crazy to believe this was possible. We argued for a long time about it and at the time I remember questioning her sanity, repeatedly. Eventually she dropped it and admitted it probably was wrong of her.

Every once in a while this strange superstitious stuff pops up with her. I love her deeply but it is not easy being married to a South Korean. :-)

I feel for you. As a Mormon who has been on missions to Korea, I can without a doubt say they are the most gullible people on the planet. They believe in some crazy stuff.

>I feel for you. As a Mormon who has been on missions to Korea, I can without a doubt say they are the most gullible people on the planet. They believe in some crazy stuff.

"My superstition isn't crazy, but theirs is."

This questions is probably going to come off as sounding kind of tongue-in-cheek, but I gotta ask: does that make your job easier? Does their 'gullibility' mean that they're more open to new ideas (which would presumably make things easier for you), or just that their current set of beliefs seems crazy to you?

It did make my job easier. But so did the overall politeness in the culture. That's part of being gullible. It's that a large part of it is associated with politeness and willing to hear someone out.

> As a Mormon who has been on missions to Korea, I can without a doubt say they are the most gullible people on the planet.

Wouldn't you need to have not only been to Korea, but also everywhere else (at least, all the populated places) on the planet to justifiably say that "without a doubt"?

help... choking... irony... too thick...

> As a Mormon

> they are the most gullible people

wat.

I this a serious comment? It's legitimately hard to tell.

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