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Songbun is actually a good word we can use for it as it creeps into western society.



Songbun sounds delicious, I wanna eat one


I believe the pronunciation sounds more like sung-poon.


Oh, that's different, but I still wanna eat some.


Yes, its Hangul rendition is 성분 and it originally (and, in South Korea, only) meant ingredients in materials, typically chemical.


In other words, a literalization of human resources?


Unfortunately, each songbun contains a parasitic cyberworm that latches onto your intestine walls and monitors your drug and alcohol intake to ensure you're not ingesting anything illicit (or too much booze).


It sounds like an SCP I read




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