No North Korean person exists outside the inminban system; with the exception of active-duty military personnel and some other exempt groups of people, everyone is a member.
The duties of the aegukban included pro-Japanese education, neighborhood maintenance, managing food rationing, and coordinating labor mobilizations.
[2] Every North Korean woman who does not have a full-time job is required to participate in inminban activities, which include cleaning public toilets, tidying up the neighbourhood, manufacturing small items at home, and occasionally going to the countryside to do agricultural work.
The local district office people's committee (洞事務所人民委員會) oversees her work and passes down to her directives from the Workers' Party of Korea.
Every morning members of the inminban are sent to sweep the streets, remove garbage, deal with sewage, and generally keep things in order.
In North Korea the occupations of janitor or street cleaner are virtually unheard of as the neighborhoods are overwhelmingly maintained by locals organized and managed by their inminban.
Due to the fact that inminbanjang are no longer rewarded for hard work and excessive efforts have the potential to cause them trouble with their neighbors, many do not carry out their duties with the same zeal as before.
Much of the inminban system has been monetized, with richer households paying poorer substitutes to undertake duties such as street cleaning, garbage collection, and labor mobilization in their place.