Love Hangul. I've traveled quite a bit and live in different countries, so I always try and pick up writing systems even when I don't master the language. And frankly, Korean Hangul was the second easiest to learn for me after Cyrillic.

Simplified Chinese is a nightmare in comparison. I learned about 300 characters over three years of living there, and it was nowhere near enough to read the paper, and barely enough to read street signs and menus. Learning Chinese is like being partially illiterate... Imagine being able to read only A-M, but any word with N-Z you're not sure how to sound out.

I've also learned Thai, and that was a headache too. Lots of characters with the same sounds, and the way they form vowels is a headache. (You basically have one consonant surrounded left, right and above with vowel marks, so you have to understand what the whole syllable is then figure out what vowel sound corresponds to the combination of vowel symbols.)

Hangul, by comparison, is really neat. There are a few exceptions, but on the whole each character constitutes a syllable with a combination of 2 or 3 sounds. The symbols themselves are pretty intuitive, too.

If you travel to South Korea, I recommend learning to read the alphabet. There are a lot of words borrowed from English, so it's a fun game to go around sounding out the words on the signs and realizing they correspond to English words.