Korean language belongs to the Altaic language family like Mongolian and Japanese. There are about 75 million people in the world who speak Korean, and according to a statistic done in 2002, the rank is about 13th in the world.

The essential written language of Korean is the Korean Alphabet. It is similar to the English Alphabet, and each letter represents a different sound. But sometimes the letter’s sound changes depending on the word or the way the word is used.    Unlike the English Alphabet, in Korean Alphabet each written character represents a syllable. They also write it left to right.