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There is a woman who has proposed 101 original ideas in nearly ten years.

She is Yun Hui, 64-year-old living in Mangyongdae-dong of Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang.

According to an official of the DPRK Intellectual Property Office, her record is two times larger than a runner-up.

Yun is a consulting engineer at the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of Science and Technology and a diffuser at the Mangyongdae District new technology research and dissemination office under the Mangyongdae District Commission of Science and Technology.

Yun was originally a doctor at a dong polyclinic.

“My father participated in the Fatherland Liberation War in the 1950s as a war correspondent. During the war, he got hurt on his leg and my mother, a health worker, recovered his health to the surprise of everybody by applying traditional Korean therapies. I was deeply impressed by her,” she recalled.

She took fraternal care of all the residents, particularly war veterans and honoured disabled soldiers, while working as a household doctor at the polyclinic for a long time.

As she majored in Koryo medicine in her university days, she mainly applied Koryo therapies.

She acquired a wealth of experience and made good results in the treatment of patients by dint of warm sincerity during her medical career.

Accordingly, she attended the national conference of exemplary people of communist virtue in 1993.

She was deeply moved as she listened to speeches made by other exemplary persons who devoted themselves to the country and people and made a firm determination to follow their examples.

Yun was favoured and loved by patients and residents as Dr. Devotion and achieved lots of successes.

She chose the way of exploiting her whole knowledge for society after retirement, assuming several social duties.

Though she was busy, she was engrossed in the development of Koryo medicines relying on abundant domestic natural resources.

She presented one idea after another just like the eruption of experiences she had accumulated through the treatment of patients for scores of years.

Her first products included such health-promoting foods as apricot stone and adlay protein nutritious pattern savoury cake with protein-rich insects as the main materials, protein-rich nutrients, black soybean candy and combined protein nutritious paste.

As soon as they were unveiled, they became much sought-after foods as they enhance absorptivity by maintaining a proper combination of essential nutritive elements.

She developed many treatment devices including tourmaline generating far-infrared rays and anion good for human body, electromagnetic wave shielding absorber, mixed herbal indirect moxibustion treatment device, and hard charcoal massaging bedding by using hard charcoal with strong functions of making poisonous and harmful elements nonpoisonous and harmless and containing various kinds of microelements.

They were highly appreciated at different exhibitions, festivals and presentations in the field of science and technology, being regarded as popular goods.

She also authored some books on traditional medicine, health-promoting foods and processed charcoal products.

“It is definitely possible to cure and prevent illnesses by applying natural minerals and Koryo medicinal herbs abundant in our country. They are perfectly suitable for physical constitutions of Koreans,” said Yun.

To her, there is no slight phase in life and she devotes her all to research.