> while calling someone “unmarried” in English has no strong connotations, the word’s standard Korean equivalent, mihon (미혼), implies that its object may not ha

> while calling someone “unmarried” in English has no strong connotations, the word’s standard Korean equivalent, mihon (미혼), implies that its object may not have married yet but one day will. An alternative term has thus gained traction in recent years: bihon (비혼), which suggests a deliberate choice not to marry, and thus not to engage in anything that comes along with marriage. I found this part interesting. There are a few analogues in English with similar phenomena, both of which I'm personally familiar with due to communities I'm part of. - Because the word "childless" implies that childless people are lacking something they want, many of us who actively recoil at the thought of having children have taken to using the term "childfree". Someone who wants children but doesn't have them is childless; someone who doesn't want children and has avoided having them is childfree. - Historically, trans people, and especially trans women have been classed into two categories, "pre-op" and "post-op", based on whether or not somebody has had Genital Reconstruction Surgery. As there are an increasing number of trans women who aren't interested in having GRS at all, many who would otherwise have been considered "pre-op" are now using the term "non-op". And on top of that, as the trans community has continued to de-emphasize GRS, I've also seen the prominence of those terms fade away in general. Years and years ago (long before I transitioned), it wasn't uncommon for someone's op status to always be attached to any mention of them being trans (usually in the form "So-and-so is a pre-op transsexual"), and nowadays you only see op status used when someone is specifically discussing GRS (and honestly, the status of my genitalia is private medical information, and I have no interest in rattling it off when introducing myself or having other people rattle it off when introducing me; it's tacky and gross).