especially when you have great words like 눈물 = 눈 + 물 = eye + water = tears 물고기 = 물 + 고기 = water + meat = fish (although this only means the animal, not the foo

especially when you have great words like 눈물 = 눈 + 물 = eye + water = tears 물고기 = 물 + 고기 = water + meat = fish (although this only means the animal, not the food, which is weird. 생선 is the fish meat like cow v beef) 돼지고기 = 돼지 + 고기 = pig + meat = pork etc. there is a lot of other examples I'm forgetting but its cool. The modification of the verb root to denote tense and formality as well is pretty intuitive. Korean is a great language. The problematic things IMO are the counting of items and the uses of the Korean v Chinese number systems, plus the random Hanja here and there.