선무당이 사람 잡는다

Korean

First appears in the chengyu-ized form 生巫殺人 in the 公私恒用錄/공사항용록 Gongsa hangyongnok, c. 1800, as an example of a native Korean proverb.

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ˈsʰɘ(ː)nmuda̠ŋi sʰa̠(ː)ɾa̠m t͡ɕa̠mnɯnda̠]
Phonetic hangul: [선(ː)무당이 사(ː)람 잠는다]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	seonmudang'i saram jamneunda
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	seonmudang'i salam jabneunda
McCune–Reischauer^?	sŏnmudangi saram chamnŭnda
Yale Romanization^?	sēnmutangi sālam capnunta

선무당 이 사람 잡는다 • (seonmudang-i saram jamneunda)

"the novice shaman kills the person [that they were trying to heal]"; a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Synonym: 반풍수가 집안 망친다 (banpungsuga jiban mangchinda)

선무당이 사람 속인다 (seonmudang'i saram soginda, “(of an incompetent person) to successfully trick someone into believing something”, literally “the novice shaman fools a person”)
선무당이 장구 탓한다 (seonmudang'i janggu tathanda, “(of a novice) to blame circumstances rather than one's own lack of practice”, literally “the novice shaman blames the drums”)