culture

The year 2024 has witnessed a lot of instances of moving into new houses.

This year the news about house moving has been reported by TV programmes and newspapers one after another throughout the year since the one in the Komdok area, which is turning into a mountain-gorge town unprecedented in history as modern mining villages rose.

People moved into new modern houses at the Kangdong Combined Greenhouse Farm and such happy scenes peculiar to the DPRK unfolded on Rimhung Street in April and Jonwi Street in May.

The news about the ceremonies for moving into new houses in rural areas was reported almost every day from April to June, and such ceremonies took place in ten days between July 17 and 26 as 14 new rural villages were built and in ten days between September 9 and 18 as 15 others came into being.

There were many days when ceremonies for moving into new houses were held at the same time in a day in lots of rural villages across the country, and such events took place in succession for several days.

The socialist countryside has undergone tremendous changes day after day and month after month, which has struck people with admiration.

The number of rural villages completed throughout the country has increased in geometric progression this year as compared with the same period of the first and second years of the initiation of the rural revolution programme.

Many farms witnessed the happy events of moving into new houses this year after last year.

Such ceremonies took place repeatedly in the Janggyo Farm in Kangnam County, the Thaephyong Farm in Hyangsan County and the Jangbang Farm in the city of Haeju. The Hyongsan Vegetable Farm in Hyongjesan District in Pyongyang witnessed house moving in March this year and some months after.

As news about house moving was reported throughout the year, members of many families were provided with houses at the same time to draw the attention of people.

A family received 12 licences for the use of houses in Munam-ri of Pujon County, and parents and children received new houses respectively at the Namyang Farm in Kilju County.

The owners of the new houses kept clean and tidy their nice houses provided by the country free of charge as they conducted the movement for winning the title of a model neighbourhood unit of socialist cultured way of life.

This movement was initiated under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which has set the fundamental change in the living environment of rural communities as an important goal of rural development of a Korean style and is being conducted as the work of the masses themselves. It is a patriotic and revolutionary movement to train all the agricultural workers to be genuine communists along with the rapid development of the countryside.

According to data available, more than 210 neighbourhood units won the title of model neighbourhood unit of socialist cultured way of life in rural areas across the country by October after the first winners of the honour came into being in March.

Neighbourhood units Nos. 20 and 22 in Jangchon-ri of Sadong District, Pyongyang, which were the first to be honoured with the title this year, are overflowing with warm affection and the trait of helping and caring for one another and also do farming well by their concerted efforts.

The agricultural workers, who became owners of new houses and villages like them, kept tidy and clean their excellent new houses provided by the state gratis, and planted many trees of good species, fruit trees, flowering shrubs and ground-cover plants in their yards and villages to add beauty to their villages.

It is the unanimous belief of agricultural workers that only those who keep their houses and villages neat and tidy, bearing deep in mind the benevolence of the Party and the state that provided them with a cradle of happiness, cultivate fields with sincerity and reap a rich harvest.