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Not that I expect to see it ever happen, but English could benefit from an alphabet/writing revamp like Korea did.
I don't know any Korean but understand that it's one of the easier languages to learn because of that.
I do know that Japanese was pretty easy to read, at least before any Kanji are involved. Despite having two alphabets (think like if for bold text, we had different symbols instead of making the same ones heavier, though they have other uses in Japanese, too). It's because they are always pronounced the same, no contextual changes. It gave the impression that Japanese was easy to learn (until Kanji smashed that idea to pieces lol).
Hangul is easy to learn to read it because it’s alphabetic unlike other east asian scripts.
Learning to speak korean is a different matter entirely if you’re an english speaker. It’s very different which can make it difficult to learn.
I can read hangul pretty well from living there for a year but i only know a handful of phrases since it’s so much different than english.
Quite definitively!
On my end of things, I'd love a "it's written like it sounds" reform that's not just limited to 7bit, poor-man's, pale imitation of Greco-Latins, "A-Z".
See my answers in the comment chain here for why that would only be a temporary solution, and why you'd need to revamp the spelling again at least every few decades after that.
Korean pronunciation has already changed since the adoption of hangul as well, resulting in many of the inconsistencies I detail in that comment chain that will only become more ...pronounced... over time.