However, many lower-class, uneducated Koreans were illiterate due to the difficulty of learning the Korean and Chinese languages, as well as the large number of Chinese characters that are used. Koreans primarily wrote using Classical Chinese alongside native phonetic writing systems that predate Hangul by hundreds of years, including Idu script, Hyangchal, Gugyeol, and Gakpil. The Origins of the Korean Alphabet Source: Pexels This article will teach you the best way to learn Korean, by being able to read any Korean word. Korean pop songs (k-pop) and drama (k-drama) become popular all over the world and learning the Korean alphabet can be very helpful to be totally immersed in their culture. Moreover, Korean culture is in the mainstream nowadays. Learning the Korean alphabet is not as difficult as it may seem there are 14 basic consonants and 10 basic vowels which are basically fewer letters than in the English alphabet.
Most English speakers think Korean has thousands of characters, like the Chinese characters, but it actually has a very simple and logical alphabet, which you can learn in a few minutes.
