An Introduction to Koreans(Han, Joseon, Joseon ethnicity) and the Korean Language Variation part III Turning to the Joseon Korean used by ethnic Koreans in China, it really is a hybrid of North Korean Joseon and South Korean Han. The Korean spoken in the Yanbian region of China has its own distinctive accent, and it’s impossible to lump all these accents together anyway. Accents may even differ from person to person. Young Korean-Chinese like me are very influenced by South Korean culture, and our language is approaching the South Korean Seoul dialect by contact through work and general communication too. So unless you really lack language learning ability, it’s fair to say that our Joseon dialect is a perfectly viable dialect of Korean to learn, very much on the same level as Han Korean. When learning Joseon Korean it’s possible to compensate for the vocabulary differences, and I think that through lots of listening practice and imitation can one improve one’s pronunciation and accent considerably.