Similar, but not quite the same if you learned Korean more than 20 years ago. Evidently younger Koreans do not distinguish much between the two sounds.[1] [1]

Similar, but not quite the same if you learned Korean more than 20 years ago. Evidently younger Koreans do not distinguish much between the two sounds.[1] [1] http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/2619/how-to-distinguish-korean-ㅔ-e-and-ㅐ-ɛ http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/2619/how-to-d...