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Unlike the Choson dynasty where there was a huge gap between the upper and lower classes, North Korea had adopted a unified social mass, also known as the gathered-together " people ".

Instead of a strict social hierarchy or a class divided society, North Korea had, in theory, divided the union into three classes-peasant, worker, and the samuwon ( intellectuals and professionals ) where each sect is just as important as the other.

The samuwon class consisted of clerks, small traders, bureaucrats, professors and writers.

This was a unique class that was created in order to increase the education and literature of North Korea.

Normally Communist nations would value only the farmers or laborers, thus in the USSR intelligentsia was not an independent class of its own, but an insertion between the classes proletariat and bourgeoisie.

Language reforms followed revolutions more than once, such as the simplification of Chinese characters under Mao ( a consequence of the divergent orthographic choices of Taiwan and the People's Republic of China ), or the simplification of the Russian alphabet after the 1917 revolution in Russia and consequent struggle against illiteracy, known in Soviet Russia as Likbez ( Likvidaciya Bezgramotnosti, liquidation of illiteracy ).