When my friend’s mom was pregnant with her little sister, she had the initial instinct to name her Ye-rin. However, her mother-in-law pressured her into naming her daughter Gyung-min, a rather masculine name, on the superstition that if the second daughter had an androgynous or boy’s name, then her third child would be a [...]
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