Proverbs
A pear drops as soon as a crow flies from the tree
For two things to accidentally occur at the same time, making someone totally irrelevant to be suspected of being involved.
Every finger hurts if it is bitten
To parents, all of their children are equally precious no matter how many they have.
One's tail is bound to be stepped on if it is long
Something secret is bound to be revealed if it continues for a long time.
a borrowed barley bag; a cat in a strange garret
A person who does not talk or get along with others and sits in the corner at a gathering.
interpret a dream even before actually dreaming
To imagine and expect something as one likes even though no one can be sure how it will turn out.
Interpretation of a dream is better than the dream itself
To interpret something trivial or not to one's liking as good.
Interpretation of a dream is better than the dream itself
It is always important to identify the essence, not the phenomenon that appears on the surface.
news that is roasted and eaten with a pheasant
An expression to describe a situation where there is no news at all.
a chicken instead of a pheasant
An expression to describe a situation where something is replaced with something else similar when the exact same thing is not found.
eat[eating] a pheasant and its eggs; kill two birds with one stone
To gain more than two benefits with a single effort.
Even though I do not want to eat it, I would begrudge giving it to others
To be reluctant to give to others even something useless to oneself.
Even if I pronounce wind as 'weend', you should pronounce it correctly
To give a homily to others to do something right when one does not do it properly.
take down even a flying bird
For one's power to be so great that one can do anything as one likes.
see only the trees and be unable to see the forest; not see the wood for the trees
To look at a part of something, not the whole of it.
One cannot hide one's age
One's age is bound to be revealed from one's behavior or words however hard one tries to hide it.
do "as you will with me"
To leave oneself in someone's hands and let him/her do whatever he/she wants to oneself.
Another person's tteok, rice cake, looks bigger than mine
To feel that something owned by someone is much better than mine.
say 'put a persimon here, put a pear there' at another person's party[shelf/ancestral rites]
To interfere in the business of someone by saying 'do this, do that'.