Does every korean learn chinese?

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because they always have name writing in chinese as well

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Traditionally Korean names are made up of three parts: the family name and then the individual name. The two characters that make up an individual name usually have meaning behind them that can be illustrated with Chinese characters. Family registries show names in both Hangul (Korean writing) and Hanja (Chinese characters).

Hence, Koreans can write their names in Chinese characters.

Also, in South Korea a list of 1800 Chinese characters is taught. Chinese characters are used in advertising sometimes as well as in many newspapers here. North Korea, however, does NOT use Chinese characters anymore.

GMaster is absolutely incorrect in saying that Korean and Chinese "have no relation." Much of the Korean language comes from Chinese (almost every "hada/頃橂嫟" verb comes from Chinese). For example, "san" means mountain and is written in Korean as 靷?but can also be shown with the Chinese character 灞? In fact, before the invention of Hangul, writing in Korea was done using Chinese characters.

However, none of this means that "every Korean learns Chinese." Much of English comes from Latin and Greek roots, that doesn't mean that every English speaker learns Latin or Greek. Source(s): I live in South Korea and am studying Korean.

http://kr.dictionary.search.yahoo.com/se...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/korean_name...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hanja...

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no, that's sterotyping. They have no relation.
No. Does every Irish person learn Spanish?
You might be confusing the Korean writing system with the Chinese. They both are based on characters different from those we use in English, but they are very different systems. It is true, however, that Koreans are taught a selection of Chinese characters that are borrowed and incorporated into the Korean language, so yes, they do learn some Chinese.
yes, koreans learn chinese (writing)
it's actually the requirements class for middle school and high school.

long ago koreans used to writing in chinese and poor people couldn't learn, and that's why koreans invented korean characters.

most koreans words are still based in chinese. even names
Many Koreans I know do not know how to write Chinese.

But, yes, they do learn how to write their names with Chinese characters. For many Koreans, this is the extent of their Chinese-writing abilities.