Visual Processing
When writing in Korean mixed script, semantic or content words were generally written in hanja, while grammatical or function words were written in hangul. It is possible that this encoding of different types of information into different types of characters speeds up reading, allowing the reader to pass over function words and visually focus on content words, and this feature of Korean mixed script has been praised by some observers, as in the following comment by Insup Taylor:
"An optimal text for efficient visual and semantic processing may be one that uses mixed scripts to enhance visual distinction of semantically important and unimportant words."
Read more about this topic: Korean With Mixed Script Of Hangul And Hanja
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