으면 모르다

eumyeonmoreuda

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Also spelled umyonmoruda

you wouldn't know unless…

The plain reading is "if X hadn't happened, you wouldn't know": 안 먹어봤으면 몰라 "if you haven't tried it, you have no idea", 배우지 않으면 몰라요 "you don't know it unless you learn it". The second use is a concession — 면 모르겠는데 or 면 몰라도 grants one exception before ruling out the rest: 땅콩 알레르기가 있으면 몰라도 "a peanut allergy, maybe — otherwise, no". Both appear in these lines, and the concessive one is much the harder to spot.

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