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Originally Posted by November
I've recently started studying Korean after several years of Japanese, and yes, I have found that knowledge of Japanese helps. The grammar is very similar.  |
In a historical sense, a lot of Japanese kanji words transmitted to Korea around the early part of the 20th century. I guess you already know the reasons behind this.
It's interesting to say, there is a growing movement in South Korea to remove a lot of Chinese-character-based words with native Korean words.