Korean language is spoken by more than 75 million people in North and South Korea and elsewhere. Korean does not seem to be closely related to any other language, although it is written in a script called Hangul, which is derived from Chinese characters.

Many experts consider Korean to be related to Japanese, since the two languages have a similar grammatical structure. Also there are known cultural links between Baekje and Japan. It's even very likely that the Baekje upper classes fled to Japan when the kingdom fell.

Of the ancient languages on the Korean peninsula, modern Korean is believed to be a descendent of the languages of Samhan and Silla.

The Korean language has 14 consonants, but thee are many slightly different dialects spoken. Mainly the dialect spoken in and around Seoul, in South Korea is the most widely spoken. The standard dialect in North Korea seems to be the dialect spoken in Pyongyang.