Flower Death

I previously wrote about Fan Death (the Korean phenomenon that if you sleep in a room with the windows and doors shut and a fan on, you will die), but this week I learned about its sister phenomenon, Flower Death. A student informed me that if you have too many flowers in your room that they can kill you. According to my student, the flowers will suck up all of the oxygen and suffocate you with carbon dioxide. Apparently photosynthesis works backwards in Korea. Plants make convert oxygen to carbon dioxide in Korea, while the process is the exact opposite in the rest of the world. The scary thing is that she claims she learned this at science academy.

Maybe this is why Paco found seven beautiful orchids in the garbage closet. Maybe the flowers killed someone and really were meant to be thrown away. I'll keep you posted on Paco's health. Oh yeah, she also found a couch at the garbage, I wonder what that was doing there. Next I will hear about Couch Death...