Cute fun fact in Korean culture boys are associated with peppers as there is a superstition that when a baby boy is born you hang a chili outside their door and to welcome the baby’s birth announce their arrival from the spirit world. Girls get a charcoal instead. And neighbors stay away for a period of days to allow the mother and child to rest. So Youngmin says chili specifically because it’s associated with the penis in Korean customs and it’s just a cute euphemism.
Cute fun fact in Korean culture boys are associated with peppers as there is a superstition that when a baby boy is born you hang a chili outside their door and to welcome the baby’s birth announce their arrival from the spirit world. Girls get a charcoal instead. And neighbors stay away for a period of days to allow the mother and child to rest. So Youngmin says chili specifically because it’s associated with the penis in Korean customs and it’s just a cute euphemism.