[lentulusgracchus]

Their privilege .... like the Japanese borrowings and spellings (in Japanese kana) of "fork" as "forku" and "steak" as "bifteku".

[GeronL]

Another advantage of making Korean easier to learn (read anyway) than Japanese (by a good margin) and Chinese (by gigantic margin) was when they started writing/reading from left to right and across the page instead of down in columns. (granted you can still find the old styles around).