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Today’s Korean proverb: “Even when the sky is falling, there is a hole where one can spring up” 하늘이 무너져도 솟아날 구멍은 있다 . . . The world seems falling apart and there are so many depressing news every day, so today’s pick has to be this one. This proverb means there’s always a way for anything. This is one of my favorite✨ hopeful✨ old saying of all — firstly because it says the sky can fall down (how abstract yet illustrative concept is that!) and secondly it encourages to find a solution for a difficult task. . . . . Similar english saying was suggested to be: “Every cloud has a silver lining” . I think it’s (yet again) slightly different, because it’s not about finding a positive side from the negative event, it’s more about changing the bad situation to a something hopeful. . . . 🐾Some korean old saying is so cute and insightful, so I decided to illustrate them.🐾 More to come! #koreanoldsaying #Sokdam #adage #saying #proverb #oldsaying #korenproverb #illustration #cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #illustrator #drawing #ink #inkdrawing #art #pen #idiom #sky #hope #clouds #solution #way (at Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Today’s Korean proverb: "There is the flying one above the running one." 뛰는 놈 위에 나는 놈 있다 🐥 I think it’s a bit easy to guess what this means… “Even if one(thing/person) is excellent, there's always a better one” This old saying is (i think) to help people to stay humble, but for me, it also paradoxically helps me not to feel insecure when I compare myself with ‘the better ones’. ’The better one’ probably is feeling insecure too sometimes, and it’s the shared experience for all of us to feel that way. Similar english saying is apparently “There may be blue and better blue”, but let me know if you know the better one :) . . . . Some korean old saying is so cute, so I decided to illustrate them.🐾 . . . . #koreanoldsaying #Sokdam #adage #saying #proverb #oldsaying #korenproverb #tail #cat #illustration #cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #illustrator #drawing #ink #inkdrawing #art #pen #속담 #insecure #insecurity #humble #그림속담

Today’s Korean idiom: “Clothes are wings ” 옷이 날개다 🕊🕊🕊 . . . This is used when you want to compliment how good they look, and it means 'fine clothes help people look fine'. I think it was when I was a freshman in College - a friend of mine once told me, noticing I was wearing a new dress, “You look totally different. It was true that clothes are wings(사람이 달라 보이네. 옷이 날개라더니)”. I said thank you, but soon I was confused—Does it mean I am not ‘good/fine’ without dressing up? I was in fact the same person. Now I understand the look can have a huge impact on how I will be perceived by others, and I can play the game too, but I hope I don’t judge others by their look subconsciously by any chance. . . . . Similar english saying was suggested to be: "Fine feathers make fine birds. “ or “Clothes make the man”. . . . 🐾Some korean old saying is so cute and insightful, so I decided to illustrate them.🐾 More to come! #koreanoldsaying #Sokdam #adage #saying #proverb #oldsaying #korenproverb #illustration #cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #illustrator #drawing #ink #inkdrawing #art #pen #idiom #feathers #wings #woman #women #girl #girls #fashion #fashionillustration (at Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Today’s Mysterious Korean proverb: “You will know 10-gil* under the water, but you won’t know 1-gil under the person" 열길 물속은 알아도 한길 사람속은 모른다 . . . I love this old saying that how it’s describing our mind as something measurable. Gil* is an old measurement in Korea, it’s about a height of a man(about 6ft). 10-gil is about 20 yards. It’s typically hard to know what’s under the water (even when it’s 20 yards down), and minds are even harder to read. This saying helps me not to determine what other people might be thinking. . . . Similar english saying would be “Man and melons are hard to know”. . . . 🐾Some korean old saying is so cute and insightful, so I decided to illustrate them.🐾 More to come! #koreanoldsaying #Sokdam #adage #saying #proverb #oldsaying #korenproverb #illustration #cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #illustrator #drawing #ink #inkdrawing #art #pen #idiom #한길 #사람속 #water #underwater #mind #psychology #secret (at Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Today’s Korean proverb: “A dragon from a brook." 개천에서 용난다 This means “Someone from a humble(tough) background achieves something majestic.” Similar english saying was suggested to be "Great oaks from little acorns grow" or “Rags to riches”, but I am not sure about this because the korean one doesn’t only mean about being patient or wealth. I like this proverb because it motivates me to become a dragon :) 🐲✨ . . . . Some korean old saying is so cute and insightful, so I decided to illustrate them.🐾 . . . . #koreanoldsaying #Sokdam #adage #saying #proverb #oldsaying #korenproverb #illustration #cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #illustrator #drawing #ink #inkdrawing #art #pen #속담 #insecure #insecurity #humble #그림속담 #dragon #brook #용 (at Williamsburg, Brooklyn)