Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 KOREAN: Korean can be written entirely in its native alphabet. Therefore, symbols from this script will overwhelmingly predominate in any normal Korean text. Chinese characters, however, are considered learned and prestigious, so a certain number of them will be encountered in quantities that vary with the pretensions of the author. The Korean alphabet was developed under the influence of Chinese writing models, so to the untrained eye Korean alphabetic writing looks like Chinese characters. The letters of European alphabets form words, but the symbols of the Korean alphabet are grouped together to form a syllable.
This means that a Korean word may extend over several groupings. Also, while the letters of European words are read horizontally, Korean G-24