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The Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill conducts vigorous mass cultural and artistic activities.

“Our factory organizes mass cultural and artistic activities on a regular basis. It puts ‘worker poets’ forward and actively helps them present their excellent works to the national mass literary work prize contest,” said Choe Sok Hwan, an official of the factory.

Officials and employees of the factory have so far created many literary works, amounting to 16 collections, since 2012.

The works created by them took first place in the national creation contest of literature group members in 2023 and 2024.

According to Choe, the factory’s literature group plays a big part in conducting vigorous mass cultural and artistic activities.

The factory encourages its officials and employees with an aptitude for literature to join the literature group and fully cultivate their talents.

It holds a joint review of and presentation and seminar on the works created by the literature group members on the day of literature group which it regularly runs.

It also invites the officials of the Central Committee of the Writers Union of Korea and professional writers to offer guidance over the works and has its literature group members attend the national short training courses to broaden their horizons.

The working life full of creation and innovation makes the factory brim with joy and optimism about life, which in turn inspire creative imagination of its officials and workers. Excellent poems thus written are carried in newspapers and magazines.

A girl weaver was so excited to see the students walking along the streets in new uniforms, which were made from cloth produced by the factory, that she emotionally reflected her impression and excitement in her poem "In the Street on a Spring Day".

Praising that the DPRK is a country where children grow up with nothing to envy in the world and that they are bringing into full bloom their dreams and hopes as the state supplies the younger generation with everything from new school uniforms to school things, the poem sings of her conviction that the future of the country resounding with children’s happy laughter will be always rosy and of her enthusiasm to contribute to the prosperity of the country with higher production results.

Such poems as "Reading the Congratulatory Letters" and "Father’s Boasting of His Daughter", created amid the brisk activities of the factory’s literature group, won first prize at the national mass literary work prize contests.

Mun Kyong Sam, a 45-year-old worker, also writes poems.

“It was May 2014 when I first wrote a literary work. At that time, when the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un took a measure to build a palatial hostel for our employees and even arranged a banquet for the workers in celebration of May Day, all the officials and employees of the factory wrote literary works. I reflected my strong emotion in a poem for the first time. Since then, I have written poems and become a literature group member,” said Mun.

Several worker poets of the factory have become Youth Literature Prize winners, journalists and writers.

The art performances of and sports games between workshops are held at a very high level on various occasions including the factory’s founding anniversary as there are many “poets” and everyone can play more than one musical instruments and has high sports techniques, Choe said.