>>19078752If you have unlimited time and have no more languages to learn other than Korean, then yes.
Otherwise, you will be learning the language for nothing other than consumption of their trashy popular culture (if you could even call it 'culture' that is.) products.
I don't know about you, but I invest time to learn languages in hopes of getting return on investment by being able to get value out of the works (literature, scientific publications, speeches/lectures, songs/opera etc) in the original language.
I once spent some time trying to learn Korean but abandoned it after searching for interesting works of literature in the Korean language and coming up with nothing.
If K-Pop culture garbage means something to you, then by all means, go for it.
You can spend your time however you wish, just don't get others to waste theirs by claiming that the Korean language has some high intrinsic value like what Koreans like to do.
>>19078761Koreans consider English to be more important than Korean, and in all fairness it is true.
I know a person who spent 20+ years in Korea without ever learning Korean, though he lived almost exclusively in an airbase, so I suppose he never needed to learn it in the first place.
Either way, plenty of Koreans now understand basic English such that you can live just fine without ever speaking Korean there.
>>19078764The alphabet is about the only feature of the language that 'makes sense'.
I was initially drawn into the Korean language, because it is one of the languages that are maintained by some kind of a regulatory authority, and I thought the language would develop over time to have the idiosyncrasies ironed out, but it is quite the opposite.
The regulatory authority only publishes the official dictionary, but other than that it doesn't seem to do much.
