There are many structures and objects in the DPRK which have been admired by foreign visitors. Among them is what is called the children’s palace.
The Mangyongdae Schoolchildren’s Palace in the capital city of Pyongyang exemplifies such facilities.
The palace has a distinctive exterior and rather splendid interior. Gorgeous chandeliers, illuminations and decorations on the ceiling and walls are a good reminder of a fairyland. Hundreds of hobby group rooms are all cosy and neat. Its theatre is flawless as well.
According to local media, when he visited the palace in May 2014, Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, pointed to the need to remodel it into an unparalleled children’s palace in the world and took every necessary measure to this end. While learning in detail about the renovation project on his revisit to the palace in November the following year, he found the windows of hobby group rooms larger than necessary and referred to the need to downsize them as they might have effects on the room temperature. He also said that a first-aid room should be separately set up in the swimming pool. This is only some of what he instructed that day.
Now, in the remodelled palace, Korean schoolchildren are conducting a range of extracurricular activities for music, fine art, astronomy, Taekwon-Do and other subjects for free like the other sorts of education in this country.
The same is true with other children’s palaces and halls that can be found in scenic places across the country. This is an outcome of the policy pursued by the country for the rising generation, which puts them forward as the king of the country and spares nothing for them.
Growth of children augurs well or badly for the future of a country. As the Korean children prepare themselves into talents who are knowledgeable, virtuous and healthy under the particular care of the state, the future of the country will be apparently so rosy.
Those getting uneasy at the DPRK’s prosperity and development are fearful of its bright future and afraid that the world people become aware of it.
Sooner or later, however, truth discovers itself and sees the light.
Many of the foreigners who have visited the schoolchildren’s palaces advise their friends to pay a visit to them ahead of other places on their possible tour of the country.
