MANNANM! WORLD PEACE is a piece of cake

MANNANM! WORLD PEACE is a piece of cake

There are two korean proverbs that has same meaning with ‘It is a piece of cake’.

One is ‘누워서 떡 먹기’, and the other one is ‘식은 죽 먹기’.

Let’s see why Koreans use these proverbs as ‘It is a piece of cake’.

First, ‘누워서 떡 먹기’ means eat rice cake laying down.

It’ is weird, is’t it? Think about this situation.

It is uncomfortable to eat something when you are laying down.

When you eat something while you are laying down, it easily stuck in you neck.

Then, why this ‘누워서 떡 먹기’ means piece of cake?

Long time ago, Korea was very poor. It was rare to eat rice cake. Nevertheless, people hardly ate three meals in a day. So rice cake was extravagant thing to people. Eating rice cake represent rich to Koreans before. Also, ancestors wish was to laying down in a warm house in the winter. That’s why ‘누워서 떡 먹기’ represent piece of cake. Nowadays, their wish changed and used as piece of cake.

How about ‘식은 죽 먹기’? As it is, When food, porridge has cooled down, it is very easy to eat.

That’s why we call ‘식은 죽 먹기’ to something that is very easy to do.

Many people say there are nothing that is easy. However, on contrary, there are many things that is ‘누워서 떡 먹기’. For example, how about WORLD PEACE? It seems like it doesn’t go with the word ‘식은 죽 먹기’. Then, if WORLD PEACE is very hot and hard to eat it, why don’t we cool it down?

It will be easier to eat it like ‘식은 죽 먹기’.

How? with MANNAM, we can cool it down.

Nowadays, world is so hot with conflicts. There are many troubles in everywhere.

How can we decrease these problems? How about we start from small things?

Like, helping others, sharing love and showing your light of PEACE?

Isn’t it ‘누워서 떡 먹기’ things to do it? Just spend little bit of your time and make small changes in your life, city, country and the world.

Even with something that’s small and easy that is the way to achieve the WORLD PEACE!

If you want to make changes, join MANNAM International. We are ready to do this and we will always welcome you:)

#Korean Expression & Vocabulary

*누워서 떡 먹기(nu-w-seo ddeok muk-gi)

*식은 죽 먹기(sic-eun juk muk-gi)

-눕다(nup-da) : to lie

-떡(ddeok) : rice cake

-먹다(muk-da) : to eat

-식다(sic-da) :cool down

-죽(juk) : porridge