What about this? * Military Status : Currently working with military option. Every foreigner asks what the 'military option' is. Then, you can answer like this. "In Korea, military service is compolsory. However, some people who have a engineering or science master degree can work for 5 years instead of serving directly as soldiers." I don't know whether this explanation is correct grammatically. But, the more important thing is that it makes sense and the foreigners can understand the meaning of Byung-yuk-teuk-rye. =) Hope this is helpful to you. =)