Korean

The Korean language has 78 million native speakers, primarily in North and South Korea.

Most Korean native speakers live in:

South Korea (48 million) North Korea (23 million) USA (1 million)

The Korean characters are similar to the Chinese characters. However, there are only 24 Korean characters, but over 5000 Chinese characters!

More interesting facts about the
Korean language

• Seoul, the South Korean capital, simply means "capital" in Korean.
• Seoul is the second largest metropolitan area in the world after Tokyo.
• Korean has a number of loan words from the English language: apateu ("apartment"), selpeu ("self-service"), bitamin ("vitamin"), keop ("cup"), saendeuwichi ("sandwich") and dozens more.

Learn Korean

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