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Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind by eatonphil on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @09:56AM (#28049218)
Not to discount your experience at all, but I have been outside of Seoul too and I still didn't feel too overwhelmed. Specifically I spent a bit of time in Bundang (a suburb of Seoul), Busan and Jeju.

One more massive advantage Korean has over Japanese is that Korean has a fairly simple alphabet so you can read and pronounce words after only a little practice.

In contrast, it takes quite a while to be able to read Japanese with their three writing systems and Kanji in particular.

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Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind by Aperocky on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:18PM (#28053634)
> In contrast, it takes quite a while to be able to read Japanese with their three writing systems and Kanji in particular.

On the other hand, if you can read Chinese.. then reading signage in Japan is like having half Chinese half weird squiggly stuff but the Chinese half would still mostly make out most of the sense.

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