The Korean alphabet is used in north and south Korea and by the Korean communities and restaurants worldwide. In South Korea it is called Hangul. The Hangul alphabet has 24 letters. 14 are consonants. Ten are vowels.
Wikipedia, half way down the article, on the Korean language, handily explains
The name combines the ancient Korean word han (한), meaning great, and geul (글), meaning script.
The letters come in blocks for sullables. Like Hebrew, when there is a vowel startin a word, you have a silent consonant to alert you to the start of a new word. (In Hebrew is is even more important, being practical as the vowels are teeny dots and dashes which you might not notice. Also the visual effect is neater.
Originally Korean was written in the Chinese writing (symbols) which has many shapes and is so hard to learn that many people were illiterature. the king in the 1400s created a system of writing which awas easy for the average person to learn, to create universal literacy.
the alphabet starts with the consonants and ends with the vowels.
For example, the letter N consiste of an upright meeting a horizontal above, , because to make the N sound your tongue touches the roff of your mouth.
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Useful Websites
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea
Map from Wikipedia article on Korea.
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