One day in January 1957 President Kim Il Sung visited the Samsok village in Pyongyang. He came to know that the peasants in the village had a wish to cultivate land into rice paddies and have rice for meal, but gave up the rice farming as they didn’t have much water in the area.

Three days later on a sleety day Kim Il Sung visited the village again and kindly asked the peasants whether they had thought of cultivating land into rice paddies. Reminding them of growing bean sprouts, Kim Il Sung taught them that it was possible to do the rice farming if they circulated water like they did when growing bean sprouts.

At that moment an aged man told Kim Il Sung that water welled up from a spring in a place.

Asking him to go there though it was a little late at night, Kim Il Sung took the lead on a steep snowy slope, holding high a torch.

Having arrived at the spring, Kim Il Sung suggested the building of a reservoir there and chose a place for a dam on it.

Later the reservoir full of life-giving water was built in the place where Kim Il Sung had chosen and the peasants in the village were able to do rice farming.

The villagers now call it a “Hwaepul (torch) reservoir” to hand down through generations the immortal exploits made by Kim Il Sung at the historical night.