Koreans call a busybody someone with a "wide ojirap" — and the ojirap is literally a piece of clothing! Ojirap is a native Korean word for the front panel of a top or outer garment; on a hanbok jeogori, that front flap is the ojirap. So what happens if that panel is wider than it needs to be? It reaches past your own body and ends up draping over the person next to you. That is exactly where the sense of "trying to wrap up territory that isn't even yours" comes from. What is intriguing is that the phrase wasn't always negative. In an age when the lines between neighbors were blurry and helping one another was a virtue, a "wide ojirap" could mean generous warmth and a big embrace. Over time, though, it hardened into a put-down, and today it points to presumptuous meddling.