Until the Kabo Reform, members of this class could only wear bamboo hats and use honorifics to address members of all other classes. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Korean class of people, who are sometimes considered part of the ch’onmin, or “vulgar commoners,” but were unable to lose their outcast status and often worked as butchers.
ANSWER: paekchong [or baekjeong; prompt on chaein]
[10m] Similar to the paekchong, members of this Japanese outcaste group often worked as butchers because the profession went against Buddhist and Shinto attitudes against meat.
ANSWER: burakumin [or eta; or hinin; or senmin]
[10e] The low social position of the paekchong and other ch’onmin was formalized by the Confucian caste system of this last Korean dynasty.
ANSWER: Joseon [or Great Joseon; or Chosun]
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