The Sino-Korean words stand out, but in a beautiful sense to my ears/eyes. It helps that they're generally short at 2 syllables and are represented nicely with

The Sino-Korean words stand out, but in a beautiful sense to my ears/eyes. It helps that they're generally short at 2 syllables and are represented nicely with the Hangeul script. Given that they make up about 57% of the Korean language [0], they're unavoidable. English/German loanwords just stick out due to there being fewer of them, and they look atrocious in Hangeul, like little dirt islands in a sea of pure Korean and Sino-Korean words. Since I study Hanja I imagine Sino-Korean words stick out a bit more for me, but I think anyone who's studied Korean for a while can get a sense of the two major groups. They just sound very different. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Korean_vocabulary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Korean_vocabulary