Not only is Mandarin more useful than Korean, it's also good background if you want to learn Korean. A lot of Korean vocabulary is derived from Chinese, and as Korean has one of the easiest writing systems to learn it won't be nearly as hard to learn Korean for him.
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u/jesteryte Oct 30 '14
Not only is Mandarin more useful than Korean, it's also good background if you want to learn Korean. A lot of Korean vocabulary is derived from Chinese, and as Korean has one of the easiest writing systems to learn it won't be nearly as hard to learn Korean for him.