I'm finding learning basic Korean language difficult for me

I am a native English (only) speaker traveling to South Korea and Japan this year. So I am trying to learn both Japanese and Korean basics at the same time. Japan seems to be a bit easier to grasp since the phonetics seem to be pretty basic. But Korean seems much harder to me from a read-to-pronounce perspective, this making my visual learning a higher learning curve. Any tips for Korean as I simultaneously delve into Japanese on the side? I just want some basic language to get around and communicate as if any tourist would do.