눈 감으면 코 베어먹을 세상
eye shut-IF nose chop-eat-FUTPART world
[It’s] a world where if you shut your eyes your nose gets chopped off and eaten.
This is another proverb on the theme of the “Dog-eat-dog world.” Ah well. While I agree with the sentiments in such proverbs at some level, I also suffer from a weird optimism about human nature that means I tend to think other things are more important – such as kindness, “presumption of innocence,” etc.