In Korea, hangul is the primary/main writing system. There are other ones like hanja and Korean braille but only a small population use the systems. Hangul is composed of 24 letters; 14 consonants and 10 vowels. There are different variants within the letter system. There are five tense consonants where two of the same consonants are put together; ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, ㅉ. There are also other pairings like ㅐ,ㅒ,ㅔ ,ㅖ ,ㅢ ,ㅘ,ㅙ ,ㅚ ,ㅝ ,ㅞ,ㅟ. Sometimes it is confusing to read the pairings because they tend to sound the same when speaking.
The sentence structure is either subject+verb or subject+object+verb. This is opposite from the US where the verb comes before the object. There are also particles that are added right after the subject to make the sentence complete. For example, it would look like “The movie가
was funny”. It does not add any meaning to the sentence.
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