•처녀가 아이를 낳아도 할 말이 있다
🌏 EVEN IF A VIRGIN GIVES BIRTH TO A BABY, SHE WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY; GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE; EVERY EVIL-DOER HAS HIS REASONS: Even a person who makes big mistakes has his/her own excuses or reasons.
•어장이 안되려면 해파리만 끓는다
🌏 A FAILING FISHING GROUND TENDS TO BE INFESTED WITH JELLYFISH: You may suffer a lot of difficulties and troubles if things are destined to go wrong.
•고래 싸움에 새우 등 터진다
🌏 THE BACK OF A SHRIMP BURSTS AMID A FIGHT BETWEEN WHALES; SUFFER A SIDE BLOW IN A FIGHT: For an irrelevant and weak bystander to be hurt amid a fight between the strong.
•귀머거리 삼 년이요 벙어리 삼 년(이라)
🌏 THREE YEARS AS A DEAF PERSON, THREE YEARS AS A MUTE: An expression used to advise a woman to pretend to have heard nothing and to restrain herself from talking too much when she gets married and lives with her parents-in-laws.
•형만 한 아우 없다
🌏 NO YOUNGER BROTHER MATCHES HIS OLDER BROTHER: An expression meaning no younger brother is as good as his older brother at anything.
•빛 좋은 개살구
🌏 A WILD APRICOT WITH A GOOD COLOR: Something that is good on the outside, but is not on the inside.
•오는 날이 장날
🌏 ONE'S COMING DAY IS A MARKET DAY: Just when one is about to do a certain thing, something unexpected occurs by chance.
•오라는 데는 없어도 갈 데는 많다
🌏 ONE IS NOT INVITED ANYWHERE BUT STILL HAS MANY PLACES TO GO: One has a lot of places to go or things to do even if one is not invited or acknowledged.
•늙으면 눈물이 헤퍼진다
🌏 PEOPLE TEND TO BECOME WASTEFUL WITH TEARS WHEN THEY BECOME OLDER: People tend to feel grief even with a minor and trivial thing as they grow older.
•늙으면 설움이 많다
🌏 PEOPLE TEND TO FEEL SORROW MORE OFTEN AND EASILY WHEN THEY BECOME OLDER: People tend to feel sorrow more easily and often even with a minor and trivial thing as they grow older.