Expanding on the other answer, Koreans play Tetris with their letters, such that almost every "character" is a syllable-length block. eg. the food 떡볶이 tteok'bok

Expanding on the other answer, Koreans play Tetris with their letters, such that almost every "character" is a syllable-length block. eg. the food 떡볶이 tteok'bokk'i is written with three. You can just break a word anywhere because of how the script works. That's not the case with English.