Has any actual research been done on this? I don't see why people think it's obviously false.
There's also the fact that this phenomenon has never been observed outside of South Korea. People around the world sleep indoors with fans on every day.
You could say the same thing for SIDS, but most people in the west accept that it exists.
> People around the world sleep indoors with fans on every day.
Then surely some of them must die in their sleep, so it shouldn't be that difficult to do a study.
It's one thing to say that no research has been done to study whether people who sleep under fans are more likely to die in their sleep, or to say that the South Korean belief is unjustified given the lack of evidence, but to say that it's 'obviously false' strikes me as being a little bit racially tinged.
There is probably a just-so story that meets this standard, but none has occurred to me.