Oh yeah, I am in now way in favor of Romanization for the Korean alphabet. It's interesting that they invented their own alphabet to replace Chinese characters. It may be the most geometrically pleasing alphabet in the world, based on their experience of imitating Chinese characters with their own letter combinations. 

But I have to say that I see many more vowels in a typical Korean word, compared to what we have in English. And the pronunciation of those vowel sounds seems to be the biggest challenge for me in learning the language. For example, when they copy English words into Korean, they really draw out each sound into its own syllable. However, in words that are authentically Korean, these sounds (especially vowel sounds) are all crowded together into each other.

I would like to have more Korean friends to help me with learning these things, as I know that the only way to really learn the language is through people like that. But I do enjoy reading and learning new vocabulary by myself simply from examples online, even if that is not the normal way for a person to learn the language properly.