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Kim Sung Bok, teacher of Toksong Primary School in Phyongsong City attached to Phyongsong Teachers Training College, has a 20-year-long career in education and was once selected as an instructor and announcer of a unit for her good looks and high level of speech when she was to graduate from university. However, she became an educator with the determination to devote her whole life to teaching the rising generations.

Sensitive to the new and with good imagination, she created new methods of teaching theoretically and in plain language with vivid historical materials and realistic contents and generalized the methods across the country. She always won the first place in the assessment of teaching qualifications in the municipality every year as she steadily improved her qualifications.

In recent years alone, she created several new teaching methods significant in making students become active learners and searchers, including the "teaching method of using multimedia to improve students’ practical skills " and thus won certificates of registration of new teaching methods, introduction of new teaching methods and invention of experimental apparatuses and teaching aids.

She also played a big role in raising the educational level of rural schools to that of urban schools.