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Korean language, however, is much closer to Japanese. The grammar is very similar, and both have imported about half of their vocabulary from Chinese, which makes these three languages almost mutually understable in the written form, thanks to Chinese characters (rarely used in Korea nowadays, except in place names).
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Probably not exactly. persoanlly I have some experiences with Koreans.
1. My Grandma travelled once , alone, from HK to Italy to Belgium. She doesn't speak English and almost got lost in the int'l airport. Luckily, she knocked into a Korean lady. Then they communicated by writting traditional Chinese, the Korean lady helped her all the way...
2. I once travelling in Northwest Spain in summer by train , where I met a group of young Koreans of Junior High school level. They confused me with HongKong actor/singer Andy Lui smitten:yeah, Liu looks like me a lot) and chased along the train for my autographs and taking photos, etc. They spoke broken English which I had no clue...in the end, we communicated successfully by writing Chinese, which many of them know how to read and write that impressed me.