Top 10 Scary Korean Myths
Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and you Most Amazing Top tenners seem to be loving the
mystery series we have been cooking up for you so I am back with the Top 10 Scary Korean
Myths!
As the title is Korean, I am giving you a blend of north and south and you can let me
know which country has the weirder myths!
Before we get into this video why don’t you let me know a myth or an old wives tale
from where you are from?
I love a good myth chat I really do!
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10 - Red Ink Causes D To me, red pens make me think of school and
getting my essays or test papers back with teachers markings on them.
The more red, the worse you did, right?
Well red pen is WAY more stressfull than that in some parts of the world!
Whatever you do not bring your red pens to South Korea.
Worse yet, do not write someone’s name in red ink!
There is a strongly upheld superstition that red ink is cursed and writing someone’s
name in it will lead to their untimely demise.
What?
But like….
What is to stop people buying a red pen and trying to off a love rival or a straight up
enemy.
Have people tried this.
Obviously this is a myth… but I totally get the superstition.
I don’t walk under ladders and sometimes I need to stop to touch wood.
Also I kind of believe that anyone who tries the whole red pen thing to destroy their foes
will get bad luck tossed back at them.
Where do we go from here?
Unicorns… that is where!
9 - Unicorns In 2012, North Korean state media claimed
that archaeologists from the Academy of Social Sciences in North Korea’s History Insitute
claimed they discovered the unicorn layer 200 metres from a temple in the capital.
Their evidence?
A rectangular rock carved with the words unicorn lair in front of an actual… uh…lair.
The Korean Central News Agency said that this is proof Korean King Tongmyong, founder of
the kingdom, rode unicorns from 3 BC to 7 AD.
Cool.
Right.
Good.
Great.
Unicorns.
Why is this scary?
Because…..
North Koreas were told that there are unicorns and now they believe that there are unicorns
and that is BANANAS.
Another one from the North at number 8 Kim Jong Un Cured Cancer….and Ebola
North Koreans think that Kim Jong Un found cures to ever single disease ever.
In June 2016, The Dictator made the rather odd claim and announced it over the state
media.
North Korean Doctors explained it to the masses by saying the scientists insert rare earth
elements into gingseng before applying micro elementary fertilizers from the earth elements
into the ginseng fields.
Wait…what….
7 - The Cockroaches Did anyone watch our Top 10 Scary Swedish
Myths?
If so you may remember the spider in the cactus situation..or the many spiders in the yucca?
WELL this is kinddaaa like that only the story goes that there could be cockroaches hiding
in tampons.
Legend has it that one girl was using a sanitary product and later complained of a stomach
ache.
When the girls stomach started to really hurt, she went to hospital where doctors discovered
that a cockroach had laid eggs inside her and they were hanging out in her uterus.
Aww….
roach babies.
This obviously isn’t true… and is probably a scare tactic to make girls fearful of their
bodies and menstruation.
6 - The Body Cabs This is somewhat of a South Korean urban legend
….like the boogieman but for drunk adults.
The story goes that organ harvesters posing as cabbies drive around cities, especially
Seoul, looking for drunk passengers.
When a person gets into the taxi, the cabbie asks where they want to go like a normal driver
would.
They offer the passenger a drug laced drink, which if they accept, they will pass out.
If they don’t they do things the harder way and stab the drunk rider with a needle.
When the rider wakes up, they have usually been dumped outside their door…and soon
they realize that they are wounded and have been hastily stitched up….
One of their kidneys is indeed missing.
Of course on trawling the internet I can’t find any evidence of this ever happening.
A similar myths says if you are caught unawares listening to music on your phone then you’ll
be snatched by the organ harvesters.
5 - Fan Death In South Korea it is a very very very popular
myth that sleeping with a fan on at night will kill you ….and if you run a fan you
run the risk of dying in your sleep?
Why?
Some crack fake news and fake science.
It is said that fans suck oxygen away from sleepers, meaning they suffocate.
Others say your body will get so cold with a fan on that you could get hypothermia.
Neither of these things are true….a fan is a fan.
4 - Eating Dog Meat Is Good For Your Health The issue here is that North Koreans are starving.
The UN World Food Program visited North Korea this year and found that 10 million people,
or 40 percent of the country, were on the brink of starvation.
Official government rations are 300 grams of food a day – that is around two thirds
of a pound.
This is a basic approximation but most people eat around 4 lbs of food each day in the Unites
States.
North Koreans are hungry.
And they have been for a long time.
His father, the former supreme leader famously fed his people sawdust, but Kim Jong Un’s
regime has encouraged its citizens to eat dogs.
He claims it is great for stamina and has more vitamins than other meats.
North Korean radio also announced that the meat, called Dangogi, is a medicine that can
cool you down on a hot day.
He says dogs should be beaten first to improve flavour.
While most of us in the west would squirm at the thought of eating dog because…dogs
are great….
I would argue all animals are great….however… eating dog meat from dubious sources puts
the consumer at risk of contracting a whole host of very nasty illnesses like rabies,
Trichinosis and ebola.
If quality control was a priority for the DPRK the citizens may be okay – but low
quality dog meat is Kim Dong Un’s way of trying to fend off famine.
Why can’t people afford to eat normally?
Because the country is spending its money on funding nuclear weapons.
Weirdly, though….
The practice of eating dog in SOUTH Korea is also a thing… they also believe eating
dog will cool you down in the summer….
But…you know… they wont turn on a fan!
3 The Hottie in the Elevator Like, I get it…. it is hard to meet people
organically these days – unless you wanna tinder and chill…so a hottie gets in the
lift and smiles at you, well…… that’s the perfect meet cute, right?
Wrong!
Do not trust the stranger who joins you in the elevator while you are alone…why?
Well there is popular South Korean myth that says you gon die.
Oh.
Why?
Well the story goes that that handsome strange is actually a killer – it is said that 19
year old Karuko lived on the 14th floor of her building and was coming home from university
late at night.
She got in the lift and pressed 14 and just as the door was about to close a man stuck
his hand in to stop the, and jumped in.
The two flirted a tiny bit but he stood too close, then he got out a floor below Karuko
and said: see you on the 14th floor…and ran to the stairs with a knife.
There was nothing Karuko could do …there was no stop button in the elevator…she just
had to ride it until the doors inevitably opened and the man was standing there waiting
for her….
As you can imagine…the story doesn’t end well.
After the attack it was said that elevator stop buttons were introduced – although
this is utter nonsense.
The myth is another one of those stories to scare women!
2 - Moving Day It is a strongly upheld belief in South Korea
that spirits haunt homes and if you move out, you may take some of those spirits with you,
therefore it is considered unlucky to move during some days of the week.
If you plan to move house in South Korea, most people want to do so on a son-eop-snen-sal
– a safe day.
There are good days and bad days to move… you just need to call a mover and ask them
the best day.
If you move on a bad day, well good luck!
It is best to trick house spirits by not sweeping the floors before you leave, as it is said
this will trick them into thinking you are still there.
People will especially avoid moving on the fourth of the month as they think that the
number 4 is cursed.
Some classic propaganda here at number 1 The Yellow Eyed American Wolves
It seems that in North Korea children are taught from a young age that Americans are
the enemy, but beyond that, they are terrifying wolves!
Children are told that Americans are monsterous beasts… in an interview, one North Korean
defector said: From a very early age we were brainwashed to believe Americans are Yankee
wolves.
"I used to think all Americans were dangerous, yellow-eyed, and devilish."
"I would imagine American and South Korean men would have this thick chest hair wrapping
all around them.”
It is perpetuated that these wolves will come for them if they get the chance.
North Koreas are also raised with institutions like the museum of American Atrocities, a
so called educational facility that places the blame for the Korean War on the United
States.
While there were a lot of countries involved and the United states isn’t blameless for
backing the drama, it was North Korea who sparked the war by invading the south.
WELL that was the Top 10 Scary Korean Myths!
Which did you think was the scariest?
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