Social media posts in South Korea have miscaptioned photos from a university lecture, falsely claiming they show a professor telling a Chinese student that Chinese characters are 'too difficult' and should be replaced with the Korean writing system. The photos actually show a neuroscience professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talking about the brain, not the Chinese or Korean languages. While Korea's writing system used to be written with Chinese characters, a phonetic alphabet invented in the 15th century called Hangul has since gained widespread usage.
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Social media posts in South Korea have miscaptioned photos from a university lecture, falsely claiming they show a professor telling a Chinese student that Chinese characters are"too difficult" and should be replaced with the Korean writing system. The photos actually show a neuroscience professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talking about the brain, not the Chinese or Korean languages.
"A Chinese international student angrily claiming to a professor that Hangul was made by China," reads a Korean-language postThe post shows photos of a woman it identifies as"Sarah Adele, a professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia." Korean subtitles on the images purport to show an exchange between the professor and a Chinese student, who told her:"Korean characters were invented by China" and"Korean characters and Chinese characters are very similar. They also have the same grammatical structure."
The professor supposedly responded:"Chinese people, why don't you guys use Korean characters instead of Chinese characters? Chinese characters are too difficult for foreigners to learn. It seems like you guys like Korean characters. I don't get why you guys are still using Chinese characters."China is home to one of the world's largest populations of overseas Koreans and the countries share deep cultural links.
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