

I believe this is the right answer. Additionally, one character in CJK languages represents a single syllable, so you get less line breaks per word. For example the world “union” can be transliterated to Korean as 유니온. Writing that vertically takes 5 lines in English (one line per letter), but only 3 lines in Korean:
유 니 온


At the moment I’m reading the “Book of the new Sun” series. Its quite confusing in the beginning, but with time it gets better and better. I like that it covers a lot of philosophical questions, while still being a fun fantasy story.