Korean is language that is spoken by more than 72 million people living on the Korean peninsula (Todaytranslations). With slight difference in spelling, alphabet, and vocabulary between South and North Korea, Korean is the official language for both regions. Even outside Korea, two million people in both China and the United States speak Korean as the first language. 7,000 in Japan, and 500,000 in the Russia regions of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan also speak Korean (Todaytranslations). When I know that Korean is mutually understandable among different regions, I felt more comfortable speak to on-campus Korean-speaking students from multiple places across from the world. Scholars have reached a consensus that Korean is a member of the Altaic family of languages, which originated in northern Asia and includes the Mongol, Turkic, Finnish, Hungarian, and Tungusic (Manchu) languages (Todaytranslations). That Korean incorporates Chinese ideograms (Hanja) has eased the learning process for me.
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