Why do Korean kids learn English before Hanja?

I read (maybe heard) that nowadaysCan you believe this?

"Hannas 1997: 71. "A balance was struck in August 1976, when the Ministry of Education agreed to keep Chinese characters out of the elementary schools and teach the 1,800 characters in special courses, not as part of Korean language or any other substantitive curricula. This is where things stand at present."Since 1976, it is common practice for Hanja not to be taught until middle school.

Yes, Korean doesn't have as many homonyms as Japanese, so the absolute need isn't there to struggle through the absolute mess that Japan has to (3 written languages, five vowels?) ... but still, a country (South Korea) that rarely used Hangul until the Japanese colonized the country or a country during ancient times that would traditionally be known to pompously send Chinese manuscripts to Japan in arcane Chinese characters so that the Japanese would have a tough time understanding it would one day come to ignore the importance of Hanja is ridiculous.

For anybody that's ever read the book, American Tragedy, this seems to be just like it. In a rush for Koreans to get rich as soon as possible all sense of traditional values (or any values for that matter) are ignored...

such as the plight of half of a country or a written language that's been used for all of recorded Korean history...

Well, all that's unimportant when your children can speak English as they have a better chance at leading more "successful" lives...

Koreans invented Chinese Writing?

Or was it just Chinese Government Propaganda aimed for domestic Chinese consumption.

A couple days ago, I found out that my aunt also thought Chinese writing (漢子) was invented by Koreans. So, I did a little research and came to believe that it was simply Chinese Government Propaganda. As the video above shows, I couldn't find a professor from Seoul University that holds this view (or did any research on it).

The only view in favor of the view that Koreans actually invented Chinese writing is here:

I personally found it to be ridiculous and watched the Japanese video over and over again. Nonetheless, it's quite scary that people such as my aunt and perhaps countless other Koreans could actually come to believe that.

I think the point that makes it sound convincing for Koreans is that they believe that the Dong Yin (East Shang) dynasty was composed of ethnic Koreans as the leaders of Gojoseon supposedly came from this kingdom. Nonetheless, even if this were true, Koreans should remember that along genetic lines Koreans and Han Chinese are different (Korean haplogroup vs Chinese haplogroup). So, at most, a leader or a noble came from China (and Shandong Province to me can't be anymore Chinese).




Plus, I'm not a calligraphy expert, but that one book that purports how Hangeul is a perfected version of Hanja (漢子), but if you look at different sources on the web, it talks about how even when two symbols look nearly identical the order in which the brush is used to write the characters is different seems to point to a different system. Anyways, it seems to be the most reasonable that the Hanja/Kanji that Koreans use today come directly from Tang China and are probably more "pure" than the simplified Chinese characters mainland China uses today.