An inherited list, not an analysis
Western dream interpretation, at least in its popular form, descends from psychoanalysis: the dream is yours, the symbols are yours, and the work is figuring out what your own mind meant by them. Korean haemong (解夢) starts from the other end. There is a body of received readings — what a snake has meant, what falling teeth have meant — carried in almanacs and household talk for centuries, and reading a dream means finding where yours sits in it.
That makes it less personal and more checkable. Two people who dream the same thing get the same reading, and you can ask where a reading came from. It also means the list is finite: some dreams simply are not in it, and the honest answer then is that last night was probably just last night.
What happened matters more than what appeared
“I dreamt of a pig” is not yet a dream anyone can read. Did it follow you, or did you chase it? Did you hold it, or watch it from a distance? Was there one, or a whole herd? Each of those is a different reading, and the differences are not small — a pig that comes to you and a pig you grab at have been taken to mean close to opposite things.
This is why the pages here are split by situation rather than by symbol alone. Water is not one entry; clear water you crossed and muddy water you fell into are separate readings under the same word. If none of the splits match what you dreamt, that is useful information too.
Taemong, the conception dream
Taemong(胎夢) has no real equivalent in English. It is a dream understood to announce a pregnancy — dreamt by the mother, but just as often by the grandmother, an aunt, or a friend who then has to go and tell her. The custom is very much alive: Korean parents commonly know their child's taemong and will tell them what it was.
Certain symbols carry it and most do not. Fruit, snakes, dragons, tigers, pigs, the sun and moon, pearls and rings are the classic ones. Older readings often claim a taemong predicts the child's sex; the readings on this site do not, because that claim has no better standing than a coin toss and gets used in ways that do harm.
A frightening dream is not a bad dream
Being chased, falling, losing teeth, seeing the dead — these are the dreams people most want explained, and the tradition does not read them as warnings of disaster. They have been taken as the shape of a mind with something coming up: a deadline, a decision, a change already under way. Dreams of the dead in particular are not read as ill omens in Korea; they are more often taken as being visited.
Nothing on this site is written to frighten you into wanting something sold as a remedy. There is no such thing here to buy.
Looking one up
Five hundred entries, each split by how the dream went, are written in Korean. They are grouped by what appeared — creatures, objects, nature, people, the body, and things you did — so the category pages are navigable with a translator.