ANSWER: At least 28, except they are called "strokes," not "letters."
The following YouTube videos do a really excellent job of introducing Chinese characters (Hanja, 한자, 漢字) to English-speaking foreigners, but the videos introduce the characters using Chinese pronunciations, not Korean. Yes, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese pronunciations of Chinese characters are mostly different.
But even though the videos below teach the Chinese pronunciations of the Chinese characters, not the Korean, they can still be used by people who want to learn the Korean pronunciations of the characters.
But how can I use the videos to learn the Korean pronunciations? Well, just look up the Korean pronunciations of the characters. But how do I look up the Korean pronunciations? Well, one way is to count the number of strokes in the character and then go to Naver's Chinese Character Dictionary HERE to find the character among the list of characters that have the same numbers of strokes. The Korean word for "stroke" is 획, so if you click on "1획" (one stroke), you will see a list of characters made with just one stroke. If you click on "2획" (two strokes), you will see a list of characters made with two strokes. For example, the Chinese character for "two" is 二, which is made with two strokes. That means 二 would be among the characters in the 2획 (two stroke) list. In that list, 二 is defined as "두 이," with the 두 (two) being the meaning of the character and the 이 being its Korean pronunciation. It's that easy.
Anyway, the following is a list of some of the beginning videos. Some of the characters introduced in the videos are simplified characters, which Koreans do not generally use. So, for those characters, I have also included the characters the simplified characters represent. I will add more to this post later, maybe.
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Lesson 1: 一 (일), 二 (이), 三 (삼), 十 (십), 上 (상), 山 (산), 工 (공), 人 (인), 土 (토), 王 (왕), 子 (자). Simplified Characters: 头 = 頭 (두), 门 = 門 (문), 国 = 國 (국),
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