5. Language in South korea

 In South Korea it has an official language and it is obviously Korean. In education, English is a compulsory subject in South Korea, while Japanese or Mandarin Chinese are optional. Approximately 10% of the South Korean population knows how to speak English well, and most of them live in big cities, like Seoul. Additionally, South Korea is home to 181,000 native Mandarin Chinese speakers.

Korean (한국어) is spoken by 98% of the population. South Korean Korean is different from North Korean, mainly in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and writing. It is written using its own alphabet "hangul" dating from the year 1446. This alphabet consists of 24 phonemes (jamo), which are divided into 14 consonants and 10 vowels.



The Korean language is written in syllabic blocks, with each alphabetic letter placed vertically and horizontally in a square dimension.  Traditionally it was written from top to bottom, from right to left (they are rarely written that way now, just for aesthetic reasons). Today, it is usually written from left to right, with spaces between letters, and with Western punctuation marks.

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