Korean might be the ideal far-eastern language to teach to UK school children. Grammatically it is similar to Japanese, but unlike Japanese or Chinese it uses a script, Hangeul, based on consistent symbols for vowels and consonants.

A problem could be that Korean vocabulary written in Hangeul might not be as Memorable, in the Sellars and Yeatman sense, as CJK ideograms. One pleasing counterexample is the word for clothes, 옷, which is pronounced "os" and looks like a stick figure.

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