My guess with the delay is that the writer's strike caught up. I haven't researched it, but I would imagine their writers would be in the same union and I don't believe the strike has lifted yet.
Regarding the language, Chinese is a group of languages, this is true, but they share various traits as they are all part of the Chinese (I don't know its technical term) branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. To simplify and generalize for a moment, the Chinese languages are about as close to each other as Spanish and Italian. Fairly mutually intelligable, certainly similar sounds, especially for those that don't know either language and would find spotting the differences challanging.
Korean, on the other hand, is an isolated language, but there is some evidence to tie it to the Altaic family that is spoken by the Turkic people throughout central Asia and Turkey. It's definately closer to those languages than it is to any Sino-Tibetan languages, minus loanwords.
That couldn't have been more off topic, but I love talking languages.
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