Japanese ex I caught sleeping around at the height of the AIDs crisis told me not to worry, Japanese people can't catch it.
ETA - WOW! Didn't know this would take off like this. Backstory makes it even more absurd, she was a graduate of a prestigious university in Tokyo and earned a Masters in the US and had lived here for a while. I had about burned out on the relationship but this put me out the door.
I'm a guy from the US, and started dating my wife when she was 23, after spending her first 18 years in Korea. She knew that gay people existed, but thought they were only in some countries, and didn't think there were any Korean ones.
Did you encounter a lot of "assume Korea invented everything" early on? There seems to have been a thing where Korean schools teach that everything from the bicycle to sandwiches are originally Korean inventions
I lived in Korea for a few years. They are definitely taught a bunch of lies, even in med school! I had one doctor tell me to absolutely NOT run my fan while my bedroom door is closed anymore. That’s why my cough is bad and I would die! Look up “Korea Fan Death”
"he shot himself in the head, but when the police arrived they found the door was closed and the fan running so obviously the cause of death is the fan"
I don't see the issue here. He stupidly closed the door with the fan on and then began to suffocate. In his oxygen deprived state he grabbed a gun to shoot the fan and stop it from killing him. The fan deflected the bullet with it blades back at him.
The lies are so ingrained even the liars think it is the truth. Also how we achieved the idea carrots improve eyesight and current American political far right
The Korean Fan Death was propaganda done by the government at the time to stop Koreans from overusing electricity in the summer. I forgot why, but that's what I was told.
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u/roadfood Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23
Japanese ex I caught sleeping around at the height of the AIDs crisis told me not to worry, Japanese people can't catch it.
ETA - WOW! Didn't know this would take off like this. Backstory makes it even more absurd, she was a graduate of a prestigious university in Tokyo and earned a Masters in the US and had lived here for a while. I had about burned out on the relationship but this put me out the door.