The Korean alphabet is easy, but the Korean language itself is extremely difficult and very different from English or French.

Reading and writing in Chinese is very hard but I found the language to be much easier to learn than Korean, especially if you can practice the tones with a tutor.

I speak Korean at a low intermediate level and am a beginner in Chinese. I think that if you want to learn Chinese, you should just go for it. Both languages are totally fascinating in different ways.