[brilliantcode]

Of course, but can you do the same with Arabic in the same time span? I think not.

With Hangul, you can start writing your own name, lot of English words in Korean which is understood in Korea. Even Konglish (Phonetically typed Korean in English) is understood to a certain degree.

Anything beyond that, you will need to learn the Korean words, but it gets you a lot farther than most languages.

No I don't have scientific evidence to support this but from anecdotal experiences. Somebody wants to write a paper on it let me know, I'll give you 0.1 bitcoin.

[mrout]

You aren't learning Korean. You are learning Hangul. You don't just need to learn 'the Korean words'. You need to learn Korean lexicon, Korean syntax, Korean morphology, Korean idiom, Korean pronunciation, etc. etc. Those are the actually difficult parts of language.

Learning the Latin alphabet doesn't mean you have learnt to read English.

And sure of course you can learn the Arabic alphabet quickly. It's a lot simpler than it looks.