NCT's Adorable Dance Challenge

Why Koreans care

The counting is part of the lyric, not merely the challenge’s name: the captions move from intending to endure something exactly three times to enduring it even five times.

In the Korean comments

Commenters playfully describe the performers as tiny children. One comment reads, in translation, “The babies don’t even cry, and they dance so well,” while another calls them “a gathering of little princes.”

What the words mean

아기두부들 (agi dubudeul, “baby tofus”) literally names pieces of tofu, but here it is a casual, exaggerated pet name for the pair’s soft, cute image.