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Originally Posted by komitsuki
I know a university friend who gave up Japanese for Korean. Now after three years of studying Korean, he's a near-native speaker. Oh, and he's German-Canadian.
But here are the problems: Korean is not really an optimal language for job applicant and you need to advance in Chinese characters (and I mean traditional, not simplified) if you want a better Korean proficiency.
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Learn Chinese to read Korean? Surely you jest. :\
Apparently S. Korea still teaches 1800 kanji. No biggie for me. Between my knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, and experience reading pre-war Japanese materials, I think I probably already know almost all of S. Korea's kanji (hanja).
As for job applications, I'm not interested in that. I've got a law degree, and I don't plan on working on international deals with Korea. This is just for fun. As it stands, if I ever work on int'l deals, I'm already able for 2/3 of the world, seeing as how I speak Spanish and English. Throw in Japanese for grins.