(Translator’s note: Ri is a measurement unit in Korea in the past. 1 ri is around 400 meters.)
Nothing in the world is strong
If it has a long neck,
But your neck sticks out a thousand ri.
Why are you a very strong person?
People say that one giraffe - which has a longer neck than you -
Died because its neck got stuck in the woods and was broken;
And that a stork - whose neck is shorter than a giraffe's -
Slipped a disc
While it was catching mud snails from a ridge between rice paddies.
However, even if you were to peck a rock, you would still be fine.
You are a lump of iron, an iron man.
If you were to not exist, humanity's hands and feet would break into fragments.
You are a gift that the Creator gave to humanity.
You are a crane, which leads construction in the 21st century.
