Is this the future of South Korea with people walking around with air masks because of how bad the pollution is?:
A forest in Hadong
The town of Hadong in southeastern South Korea will sell canned fresh mountain air in a tie-up with a Canadian company amid growing concerns about air pollution, municipality officials said Wednesday.
The municipality said it will hold a ceremony on Friday to mark the dedication of a plant on a site of 99 square meters in the town’s Uisin Village to produce canned air coming from Mount Jiri in the region.
According to them, the can of pure air with the trademark of Jiri Air, which carries eight liters of fresh air from the mountain, will be sold at a price of 15,000 won (around $13) each at drugstores across the country. The amount of the air in one can is equivalent to 160 lungfuls that a customer takes for a second.
Inhaling the air through a built-in mask makes customers feel like they are in a forest of cypresses as it has a cypress aroma.
The air comes from a forest 700 to 800 meters above sea level where no people live. [Korea Times]
You can read more at the link, but if I was going to spend $13 on air I would not buy air from within South Korea where the entire peninsula receives yellow dust of some kind. This Canadian company could probably sell better air from Canada itself.
People tell me air is like beer: doesn’t travel well.
Smokes
6 years ago
Myess… because Hwang-sa never makes it to Hadong. :hmm:
ChickenHead
6 years ago
Instead ofJiri Air, I’m going to sell Cheery Air.
Basically it will be rebranded cans of gold spray paint.
Also… WTF is a Canadian company getting involved for? Does Korea have the technology to can everything from cooking oil to methyl ethyl ketone but needs foreign expertise in canning air?
Somebody is going wind up with hurt feelings a year from now.
Which reminds me… 160 lungfulls is about 80 liters, not 8 liters… assuming normal tidal breathing of about a half liter per breath. Actual “lungfulls” would require closer to 960 liters… an interesting consumer product on either end of the volume vs pressure containment ability graph… and even a sight to behold in the middle of that graph.
But assuming they didn’t mean lungFULLs, lets still look at some math.
To get 80 liters of air into a 1.8 liter soda bottle size can, you need to pressurize it to 44.4 bar… that’s 44.4 times air pressure… both physically and legally requiring a pretty cool can.
Ajuma isn’t going to be carrying that clunker home in one hand.
And if she punctures it or drops it and breaks the valve off, she is going to have the world’s fastest can… which will suck for anyone located 180 degrees around the can from that hole.
Mwl Brooks even reminds me Pres. Moon.
Except moon is an idiot, Mel is acting… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0U
Humans are strange animals.
Smart enough to do this.
And also stupid enough to do this.
I mean, smart enough to be able to do this.
Most species of mammal can’t bottle and sell air.
“Most species of mammal can’t bottle and sell air.”
Few times in history has a truer statement been uttered.
Next week on Liz’ Wild Kingdom, Bolivian sloths make poor air traffic controllers.
LOL 😀
People tell me air is like beer: doesn’t travel well.
Myess… because Hwang-sa never makes it to Hadong. :hmm:
Instead ofJiri Air, I’m going to sell Cheery Air.
Basically it will be rebranded cans of gold spray paint.
Also… WTF is a Canadian company getting involved for? Does Korea have the technology to can everything from cooking oil to methyl ethyl ketone but needs foreign expertise in canning air?
Somebody is going wind up with hurt feelings a year from now.
Which reminds me… 160 lungfulls is about 80 liters, not 8 liters… assuming normal tidal breathing of about a half liter per breath. Actual “lungfulls” would require closer to 960 liters… an interesting consumer product on either end of the volume vs pressure containment ability graph… and even a sight to behold in the middle of that graph.
But assuming they didn’t mean lungFULLs, lets still look at some math.
To get 80 liters of air into a 1.8 liter soda bottle size can, you need to pressurize it to 44.4 bar… that’s 44.4 times air pressure… both physically and legally requiring a pretty cool can.
Ajuma isn’t going to be carrying that clunker home in one hand.
And if she punctures it or drops it and breaks the valve off, she is going to have the world’s fastest can… which will suck for anyone located 180 degrees around the can from that hole.
I think someone is full of poop here.