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Songbun

caste system in North Korea
Class type of: social class, ascribed status Q705820

Facts

4 properties
Country
North Korea[3]
Subclass of
social class, ascribed status
McCune–Reischauer romanization
chulsin sŏngbun[4]
Revised Romanization
Chulsin-seongbun[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Songbun en Constituent origin ar سونغبون de Sŏngbun de Seongbun el Σόν'γκμπουν he שיוך מעמדי hu Songbun hu cshulsin szongbun hu szongbun ja 住民成分 ja 出身成分 ko 출신성분 ru Сонбун th ซ็องบุน vi Thành phần xuất thân
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
E0053254
Freebase ID
/m/0j_7cjx
Namuwiki ID
출신성분
Quora topic ID
Songbun

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🔗 Connections
Subclass of 2
social class, ascribed status
Country 1
North Korea
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Summary

Songbun is a type of social class[1] and ascribed status[2].

Related Entities

North Korea

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  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · ~2026-58124-39 · 2026-10-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → North Korea
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bn', 'commons', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fi', 'fr', 'ha', 'he', 'h
    Subclass of → social class, ascribed status
    Subclass of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetdescription-set:1|zh */ 部分极权制度下的政治术语意识形态概念"
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