There's a complication further to what Kirby wrote, too. I'll let wikipedia say it for me:



Japanese has a very small number of 'allowable sounds' compared to English (as strange as that sounds if you've never heard such a thing), and a very tiny number of sounds are overwhelmingly more common than the rest in Sino-Japanese vocabulary, with the result that Japanese has an awful lot of homophones. Without kanji, it would be near unreadable - native speakers occasionally have to resort to explaining exactly which of the six identically-sounding words they meant to say in one circuitous fashion or other, e.g. by writing kanji in the air; TV shows very frequently have partial subtitles. I don't know whether it's the same in Korean or not, but the same problem will exist to some extent.

It's not uncommon for Korean shows to have hangul subtitles, and occasionally, you'll see hanja to clear up ambiguity.

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