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What is 속담?
속담 (sok-dam) are Korean proverbs — short old sayings people still use every day, like 가는 말이 고와야 오는 말이 곱다 (“kind words bring kind words back”). The cookie picks one of 150 from our Korean expressions list, with its meaning and an example sentence.
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쿠키를 누르면 속담 하나가 나와요. 뜻 · 비슷한 영어 표현 · 예문을 함께 보고, 카드로 저장해 친구에게 보낼 수 있어요. 하루에 하나가 기본이고, 「하나 더」로 더 뽑을 수 있어요.
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The Words section has all 150 proverbs and 149 four-character idioms (사자성어), each with examples.
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