culture

The Pyongyang Municipal Power Distribution Station is taking the lead in the work for supporting education.

Thanks to the sincere support of its employees for education, the windows of Pyongyang Teachers Training College were all changed with double windows and Moranbong Middle School No. 1 was splendidly renovated.

And they newly covered the roof of Pyongyang College of Electric Engineering with neat steel sheets, replaced desks and chairs of its classrooms and laboratories with new ones and furnished it with a complete set of school fixtures.

They also covered the playground with artificial grass and renovated its dormitory, bathroom and other cultural and welfare facilities.

They continued to cover the playgrounds of Singan Primary School in Hyongjesan District and other schools with artificial grass and provide over a dozen schools with new equipment needed for their informatization, teaching aids and furnishings and sports apparatuses.

All employees of the station say that they did what they had to do because education is an important undertaking for their future.

“I am a Labour Hero and deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly,” Ko Song Dok, manager of the station, introduced himself before telling the following story:

There is Tongan Primary School in Central District near the station.

One day, when he was on his way back to his office after looking round the workplaces, Ko saw many people who were passing by stop by the school fence and watch something interesting.

A sporting event was at its height in the playground of the school.

The games of schoolchildren were so interesting that he joined the onlookers unawares.

They clapped the young players and shouted at them to run faster as the opponents were at their heels. And suddenly the voices of many supporters died away.

The front-runner of a race fell, injuring his knees and elbows.

The game was stopped, teachers and students came to help him and rushed him to the hospital. The moment he heard the voices of those who were at a loss as they could find no way to help them while feeling regret, Ko was filled with shame. 

It was so difficult for him to free himself from guilty conscience that a few days later when all the employees got together he opened his heart, telling them what he had seen and what he had thought about it.

He criticized himself frankly, saying that whenever the Party and government policies for children were adopted as laws, he approved them by raising the certificate of deputy, but he did nothing for their implementation as a deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly and that he was not eligible for a deputy to the SPA. And then he appealed to all employees to contribute, though little, to the future of the country as its citizens.

As their first undertaking, they laid artificial grass on the playground of Tongan Primary School in Central District.

From that time on, the officials and employees of the station have actively tapped latent reserves, made it a duty to save as much as possible and actively joined the effort to offer assistance to education regarding it as their own affair.