“Your ojirap is too wide.” In Korean that is a rebuke. You meddle; you are into everybody's business. Fewer people know that the phrase started out as a remark about clothes.
오지랖, ojirap, is the front panel of a jacket — the part that folds across you. A wide one covers more. From there it became a way of describing somebody who goes about covering and involving themselves in everything.
Though it is not only a fault, when you look at what it is made of. The woman who wakes a dozing student on the bus because his stop is next. The old man who, asked for directions, walks you to the end of the alley instead of pointing. Somebody who cannot go past a wet shoulder and leave it alone.
Meddling and caring sit closer together than the word lets on.
Someone is in my business more than I would like, and just as I am getting irritated it comes to me: that person is holding their coat open at me.
