
Beans grow where beans are planted; red beans where red beans are planted.
— Korean proverb; individual author and earliest origin unknown
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THE LIBRARY
Shared wisdom, with origins and meanings explored.

Beans grow where beans are planted; red beans where red beans are planted.

Even straw sandals have a matching pair.

Be slapped in Jongno and vent your anger at the Han River.

Medicine bitter in the mouth is good for the body.

The water upstream must be clear for downstream water to be clear.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

Even when digging a well, dig one well.

A frog inside a well.

No tree withstands ten strokes of the axe.

You can know ten fathoms of water, but not one fathom of a person's heart.

Would smoke rise from a chimney without a fire?

Ah differs from eo.

The cheap thing is bean-dregs cake.

Eating cooled porridge.

Licking the outside of a watermelon.

Read a scripture into an ox's ear.

Repair the cowshed after losing the cow.

Time is medicine.