Korean gets about 60% of its vocabulary from Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Korean_vocabulary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Korean_vocabulary

Korean gets about 60% of its vocabulary from Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Korean_vocabulary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Korean_vocabulary This is why many of the words sound Chinese (and a particularly old version of Chinese).