My article, “Dog-Year Fortune,” 1/4/2018, http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2018/01/162_241921.html. The image: A good luck charm to be carried by a woman not wishing to bear a female child. She should keep the charm until she gives birth to a son. The charm prevents “a nine-daughter curse.” It’s best, the Good Luck Charm book says, that a woman carry the charm after the birth of her first daughter and not wait until she has three daughters. There is no “nine-son curse,” as having many sons is one of the five greatest blessings in life.