Expanded use of the Hangul script

It's interesting from a linguistic point of view as a false-beginner retaking my second language in my intermediate-ish third language. It does seem like the Hangul script is not really up to the task of representing Chinese sounds without some large and major changes.

On the contrary, the hangul script itself has tons of obsolete jamo (letters), some of which date from King Sejong's time, whilst Korean had some form of indication for pitch in the form of dots. So it's somewhat possible to potentially indicate tones or other sounds of Chinese.
 
What he said. Cyrillic was adopted for purely political reasons, not because there it was particularly well suited to the Mongolian language. Change the political situation and you easily see another character system being adopted instead.

Ethnic Koreans made up quite a large proportion of the early Communist movements in Manchuria, so perhaps somehow enhancing their numbers and influence could have an effect. Perhaps a PoD with the Japanese encouraging or forcing large numbers of Koreans to settle Manchukuo in the 30's (with an eye to assimilating the Korean peninsula into Japan). Later, a Korean-dominated Soviet-aligned Manchurian People's Republic emerges. With China in civil war and Japan in ruins, this state becomes a major industrial power for a couple of decades, and it's influence leads to Mongolia choosing the hangul script over the Cyrillic.
 
What he said. Cyrillic was adopted for purely political reasons, not because there it was particularly well suited to the Mongolian language. Change the political situation and you easily see another character system being adopted instead.

Ethnic Koreans made up quite a large proportion of the early Communist movements in Manchuria, so perhaps somehow enhancing their numbers and influence could have an effect. Perhaps a PoD with the Japanese encouraging or forcing large numbers of Koreans to settle Manchukuo in the 30's (with an eye to assimilating the Korean peninsula into Japan). Later, a Korean-dominated Soviet-aligned Manchurian People's Republic emerges. With China in civil war and Japan in ruins, this state becomes a major industrial power for a couple of decades, and it's influence leads to Mongolia choosing the hangul script over the Cyrillic.

Another scenario might be Korea launching Meiji-type reforms and annexing Manchuria.
 
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