Table of Contents ㄱ 01 The Day You Go Happens to Be Market Day 02 Kind Words Bring Kind Words 03 You Don't Notice Your Clothes Getting Wet in a Drizzle 04 The Crayfish Sides with the Crab 05 A Tree with Many Branches Never Has a Calm Day 06 Sticking to the Liver, Then Sticking to the Gallbladder 07 If the Price Is the Same, Choose the Crimson Skirt 08 The Frog Forgets Its Tadpole Days 09 Even Dog Poop Is Hard to Find When You Need It for Medicine 10 When Whales Fight, the Shrimp's Back Gets Broken 11 After Hardship Comes Happiness 12 Hanging a Bell on the Cat's Neck 13 A Tower Built with Effort Will Not Collapse 14 Even a Bushel of Beads Is Treasure Only When Strung Together 15 Even a Grub Has a Rolling Trick 16 Even Geumgang Mountain Is Best Seen After a Meal 17 The Crow Flies and the Pear Falls 18 Eating the Pheasant and Its Egg Too ㄴ, ㄷ 19 Rice Cake in Another's Hand Looks Bigger 20 Telling Others What to Put at Their Own Feast 21 Not Knowing the Letter 'ㄱ' Even with a Sickle in Front of You 22 Birds Hear Words Spoken by Day, Mice Hear Words Spoken by Night 23 My Own Nose Is Three Feet Long 24 Spitting While Lying Down 25 Dropping Snot into Finished Porridge 26 Even the Full Moon Wanes 27 Swallow If Sweet, Spit If Bitter 28 Eating the Chicken, Then Showing a Duck's Foot 29 Like a Dog That Chased a Chicken, Staring Up at the Roof 30 The Thief's Own Feet Feel Numb 31 Even a Stone Bridge Should Be Tapped Before Crossing 32 Give a Pint, Receive a Bushel 33 A Tree Destined for Greatness Shows It from the Seedling 34 It's Dark Right Under the Lamp 35 Drinking Kimchi Juice Before the Rice Cake Giver Even Thinks of Giving 36 The Dog with Dung on It Scolds the Dog with Chaff on It 37 Above the One Who Runs Is the One Who Flies ㅁ, ㅂ 38 A Thunderbolt from a Clear Sky 39 Words Become Seeds 40 One Word Can Repay a Debt of a Thousand Nyang 41 Ignorance Is Medicine, Knowledge Is Illness 42 The Thirsty Person Digs the Well 43 Poking the Persimmon You Can't Eat 44 Even Iron Becomes a Needle if You Grind It 45 Save a Drowning Man and He Demands His Bundle Back 46 One Loach Muddies the Whole Pond 47 Give the Disliked Child One More Rice Cake 48 Struck on the Foot by the Axe You Trusted 49 Pouring Water into a Bottomless Jar 50 Where the Needle Goes, the Thread Follows 51 A Needle Thief Becomes a Cow Thief 52 Words Without Feet Travel a Thousand Li 53 The One Who Farted Gets Angry First 54 The Navel Is Bigger Than the Belly 55 Even a Sheet of Paper Is Lighter When Lifted Together 56 The Riper the Rice, the Lower It Bows 57 Even a Flea Has a Face 58 Giving the Sickness, Then Giving the Medicine 59 What You See but Cannot Eat Is a Picture of a Rice Cake 60 An Empty Cart Makes the Most Noise 61 A Wild Apricot That Looks Good ㅅ, ㅇ 62 Too Many Boatmen Steer the Boat Up a Mountain 63 Even a Dog at a Village School for Three Years Can Recite Poetry 64 A Habit at Three Lasts Until Eighty 65 Fixing the Barn After Losing the Cow 66 Reading Scripture to a Cow's Ear 67 Pull the Ox's Horns While the Iron Is Hot 68 Licking the Outside of a Watermelon 69 The Mullet Jumps, So the Goby Jumps Too 70 Eating Cold Porridge 71 Playing with Immortals, You Don't Notice the Axe Handle Rotting 72 There's No Smoke Without a Fire Lit 73 A Wooden Club Out of Nowhere at Midnight 74 The Webfoot Octopus Disgraces the Whole Fish Shop 75 Peeing on a Frozen Foot 76 No Tree Fails to Fall After Ten Strikes 78 A Frog in a Well 79 If You're Going to Dig a Well, Dig Only One 80 Enemies Meet on a Single-Log Bridge 81 Even Monkeys Fall from Trees 82 The Upstream Water Must Be Clear for the Downstream to Be Clear 83 Bitter Medicine Is Good for the Body ㅈ, ㅊ, ㅋ, ㅌ, ㅎ 84 Once Bitten by a Turtle, Startled Even by a Pot Lid 85 Small Peppers Are Spicier 86 The Bear Does the Tricks, but the Owner Takes the Money 87 Even a Mouse Hole Will Have Its Sunny Day 88 Even a Worm Wriggles When Stepped On 89 Even Straw Shoes Have Their Match 90 Would a Sparrow Just Pass by a Mill? 91 A Journey of a Thousand Li Begins with a Single Step 92 Beans Sprout Where Beans Are Planted, Red Beans Where Red Beans Are Planted 93 Even If You Say Soybeans Make Meju, No One Believes It 94 Dust Gathers to Form a Mountain 95 Even If the Sky Falls, There's a Hole to Escape Through 96 A Day-Old Puppy Doesn't Fear the Tiger 97 Speak of the Tiger and It Appears 98 What Could Be Blocked with a Hoe Now Needs a Shovel 99 A Pumpkin Rolls In, Vine and All 100 An Ox Steps Back and Catches a Mouse Publisher's Note Proverbs that build vocabulary, expressive skill, and language fluency—how well do your children really know them? How accurately do our kids understand proverbs? It goes without saying that knowing more proverbs helps improve vocabulary and expressive ability. But when we ask children to explain what a proverb means, we often find they've misunderstood some, and there are others they've simply never heard before. The more proverbs they know...