The Korean language has a very interesting history behind it. Although Koreans spoke in Korean for a long time, the writings were in Chinese characters. For example, this is similar to a hypothetical case of English speaking countries writing in another language, yet speaking in English. The Korean alphabet was created by King Sejong in 1444. Since then, there have been a lot of improvements and it is known as one of the easiest languages to learn.
Knowing this history of the relationship of the Chinese characters in the Korean language can help anyone learn Korean faster. There are a lot of difficult vocabulary words that are based off of Chinese words. These words are called "han-ja". Knowing some of these Chinese characters will help understand these words better.
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