Waterless clothes washing

As i'm running out of clean clothes, i decided it's time to do laundry. Hence, I used for the first time my korean washing machine. I prepared long and hard for this moment, took photos of the menu, showed them to my colleagues and asked them to translate it for me. So, i really thought there will be no problems. But again, life is full of surprises. After setting all the options, i pressed the start button, and the washing process started. Everything seemed ok at the beginning, but after about 5 minutes the absence of any kind of water inside the washing machine became suspicious. Everything else was there, the rolling back and forth, the noise.. everything except for water. So, unless the koreans invented a revolutionary washing technology which they did not share with the rest of the human kind, i would say there is something going wrong! I looked around the washing machine and found some water switch controlling the water flow going into the washing machine (or at least that's what i think is doing - understanding the label would again be useful...) and turned it on. However, it did not change anything :(. Still no water! Ideas??!