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Neither! I learned kanji as part of vocabulary instead of standing alone. I would learn a word including how to write it, and that was that. If I came across a kanji I recognized in a word I didn't, that was at least enough information to look it up, and thereby learn another reading for it. But I never focused on practicing "this character has these readings" or "this compound sounds like this".

Korean's pronunciation is very normal and consistent. It's very much like Japanese in that regard. And it's an alphabetic language like English, just organized into written syllables to make it even easier to see the cadence of the word.