Accompanied by glowing illustrations, twenty Korean proverbs are presented in English and Korean, grouped into themes of character, food, cooperation, and accomplishment.

The beauty of a proverb rests in its simplicity. A collection of essays, The Tongue Can Break Bones examines 100 Korean proverbs and their meanings, placing an emphasis on how these messages are universal to both Eastern and Western culture. Though gentle and humorous, these proverbs offer time-tested wisdom that crosses continents, derived from the everyday experience and lives of average citizens. About the Author About the Author C. Bonaventure is the last child of a 10-person family, born and raised in Korea. After successive post-baccalaureate degrees in Canada and the United States, Bonaventure spent 40 years working both in an industry setting and academia. After retiring in 2013, he began working on the series of essays that form The Tongue Can Break Bones in an effort to promote Korean culture and disseminate the wisdom therein. It offers a counter-balance to the "fast and furious" pace of modern living. Currently, Bonaventure resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, June, who is a university professor.

Intended as a companion to the popular KLEAR Textbooks in Korean Language series and designed and edited by a leading Korean linguist, this is the first volume of its kind to treat specifically the critical role of language in Korean culture and society. An introductory chapter provides the framework of the volume, defining language, culture, and society and their interrelatedness and presenting an overview of the Korean language vis-à-vis its culture and society from evolutionary and dynamic perspectives. Early on, contributors examine the invention and use of the Korean alphabet, South Korea’s "standard language" vs. North Korea’s "cultured language," and Korean in contact with Chinese and Japanese. Several topics representative of Korean socio-cultural vocabulary (sound symbolic words, proverbs, calendar-related terms, kinship terms, slang expressions) are discussed, followed by a consideration of Korean honorifics and other related issues. Two chapters on Korean media, one on advertisements and the other a comparative analysis of television ads in Korea, Japan, and the U.S., follow. Finally, contributors look at salient features of the language, narrative structure, and dialectal variation. All chapters are accompanied by a set of student questions and a useful bibliography. A beginning level of proficiency in Korean is sufficient to digest the Korean examples with facility, making this volume accessible to a wide range of students. Contributors: Andrew S. Byon, Sungdai Cho, Young-A Cho, Young-mee Y. Cho, Miho Choo, Shin Ja J. Hwang, Ross King, Haejin Elizabeth Koh, Jeyseon Lee, Douglas Ling, Duk-Soo Park, Yong-Yae Park, S. Robert Ramsey, Carol Schulz, Ho-min Sohn, Susan Strauss, Hye-Sook Wang, Jaehoon Yeon.

In order to gain understanding of the mindset of a people you need look only to their cultural proverbs. How we think, what we believe, we tell of in our stories and sayings. The Proverbs series of books seeks to grant such insight . Each book in the series contains one hundred carefully selected proverbs to ruminate and inspire. Other Titles Include: Chinese Proverbs Danish Proverbs Dutch Proverbs Ethiopian Proverbs French Proverbs German Proverbs Greek Proverbs Indian Proverbs Iranian Proverbs Irish Proverbs Italian Proverbs Japanese Proverbs Nigerian Proverbs Romanian Proverbs Russian Proverbs Spanish Proverbs Turkish Proverbs And many more coming soon!

Proverbs are crystals of knowledge acquired from daily life and passed from generation to generation. The origin of these proverbs is usually not attributed to one specific person. It is interesting to note that equivalent proverbs exist in many languages, demonstrating the universal nature of humanity. This book provides a collection of equivalent proverbs in four Asian languages as well as English. Each of the Asian language proverbs is presented with its literal translation in English. Each proverb is compared and explained to point out similarities and differences in the languages due to the differences in culture. The book will be of interest for those who enjoy proverbs. It will also serve as a good reference to students of English as the second language or anyone who is trying to learn any of the five languages.

"Korean Proverbs and Sayings " in english language .Have 250+ and more korean proverbs and sayings ( 2558 MS word ) Koreans mainly live in the two Korean nation states, South Korea and North Korea (collectively referred to simply as Korea), but are also an officially recognized minority in China, Vietnam, Japan and Philippines, plus a number of former Soviet states, such as Russia and Uzbekistan. Over the course of the 20th century, significant Korean communities have emerged in Australia, Canada, United States and, to a lesser extent, other nations with a primarily immigrant background...