ARTICLE 80. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea protects people from other countries who are in exile after struggling for peace, democracy, national independence and socialism and for freedom in scientific and cultural activities.
ARTICLE 80. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea protects people from other countries who are in exile after struggling for peace, democracy, national independence and socialism and for freedom in scientific and cultural activities.
i would want to try and figure out some rudimentary spoken korean first, and then move onto basic literacy before even really considering it. i have struggled with the tonal stuff in mandarin, which has made me less confident about language learning. i used to think i could imitate any human made sound after hearing it a few times, but some out there taught me otherwise.
without conversation and literacy and the means to continuously improve those skills for the rest of my life, the social isolation would be really hard.
Worth noting that even though you definitely were overestimating yourself, Korean is not a tonal language and it has an extremely transparent orthography, one of the best in the world. It has some phonetic elements that would give English speakers trouble, but nothing as deeply alien as tone, just more common things like more use of aspiration as a distinct phoneme category. At least, that’s my understanding, though I don’t speak Korean.