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Well, my parent language is Chinese. And as we all known, most of Japanese and Korean words and cultures are from China.

Before the Korean letter invented in 1443 by king of Korea called Sejong the Great, all of the Korean articles are written by Chinese characters (汉字, called Hànzì in Chinese and Kanji in Japanese). Before the Korean Peninsula split, people in the whole territory of the Korean Peninsula still use Chinese characters, but now in order to show their independent status and eliminate illiteracy, Korea basically abolished Chinese characters (especially North Korea). But the Korean people still name themselves in Chinese characters, and each Chinese character has a corresponding Korean character almost recorded in Hunminjeongeum (Korean: 훈민정음, 訓民正音 ) written by Sejong the Great.

As for Japan, without much words, Chinese characters are still widely used.

Finally, let me give an example: today is Moe Festival (萌节, "萌" means cute in Otaku Culture from Japan, and "节" means festival) for Chinese and Japanese Otaku, that because “萌” can be disassembled into “十月十日 (October 10th)”. Only in the countries still use Chinese characters (such as China and Japan) have the punch lines like this.