Henning, the good thing is that the Chinese, Korean and Japanese people can all read the same newspapers, if written in Chinese characters / hanja / kanji, even if pronounced completely differently, because they are all based on the same (Chinese) symbols. Not so good about it is that you need to know a lot of symbols to understand them. :)

But Korean hangul characters are actually letters, and there are only 24 of them, so it's not a problem to read them. They may look more difficult, because they are "packed" in "groups", but still so much easier that Chinese symbols.

Rgds

Vlad

How about Korean Characters ?
There is a significant difference between chinese / korean and japanese Characters

Just like you said, jadran, the name is very literal:

금 (keum, but also geum, or something in between) means (among other things) gold, while 어 (eo) means fish. The same is also written in Chinese characters in the middle.

Rgds

Vlad

What does KEUM EO mean ?
I believe it has something to do with that "creature" !???

Hi Vlad,, can you find any translation from the Korean language ............
Brgds (J)

Um, this is rather interesting! Strange indeed, but good photo! Thanks for sharing. :)

Susan

I don't know, but I'd have serious doubts to embark on such a vessel... :)

Ships seems to be ready to take a dive ;-)

L O L