What does your dream mean in Korea?
Korean families have read dreams for centuries. Pig dreams mean money, a tiger can announce a baby, and a lucky dream can even be sold. Look up yours.
The dreams Koreans talk about most
Good omen · 길몽Pig돼지꿈
In Korea a pig dream is the classic money dream. Plenty of people who have one stop at a lottery shop that day, and some keep the dream to themselves until the luck arrives.
Depends · 반반Snake뱀꿈
A snake dream can be lucky or unsettling in Korean dream folklore. A great snake entering your house is traditionally fortunate, but the snake's behavior changes the reading.
Pregnancy dreams, the Korean way
A taemong is the dream that announces a child. Many Korean parents, and often grandparents, still tell children what their taemong was.
- A dragon rising from watera child with great fortune
- A big carp in your armsa healthy, lucky child
- Picking ripe peachesa classic fruit taemong
- A tiger walking ina strong, bold child
Yes, you can buy someone's dream
A lucky dream is thought to carry its luck to whoever owns it, so the dreamer can pass it on for a small payment.
Munhui bought her sister's dream with a silk skirt and later married Kim Chun-chu, who became King Muyeol of Silla.
A few coins change hands and the buyer says "I'll buy your dream." Read about the customs