“Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.”
It’s by Yi Sun Shin, one of Korea’s greats.
Thank you.
Korean Language Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for linguists, teachers and students of the Korean language. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this communityThe original quote is in Classical Chinese, the literary language used in Korea at the time:
勿令妄動 靜重如山 (물령망동 정중여산)
Translated to Korean, it would be:
가벼이 움직이지 말라, 태산과 같이 무거이 행동하라.