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Anyone who has taken the effort of studying both Japanese and Korean might have recognized some undeniable similarities between the two. Not only is the sentence structure identical in many ways, but their pronunciation of words is also incredibly similar.
Actually, there is a lot of discussion among linguists about whether these languages are related or whether it is simply due to Chinese influence in Asian languages that make them sound as though they belong together. (However, the Chinese sentence structure differs a lot from the Japanese and Korean one).
Here are some words that Japanese and Korean seem to share:
| Japanese | Korean | English |
| 写真 (shashin) | 사진 (sajin) |
photo |
| 計算 (keisan) | 계산(gyesan) | math |
| 地震 (jishin) | 지진(jijin) | earthquake |
| 新聞 (shinbun) | 신문(shinmun) | newspaper |
| 簡単 (kantan) | 간단(gandan) | easy |