Today all people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea lead to their hearts’ content the rich and diversified emotional and cultural life through sports suited to the independent nature of a social being.
Development level of sports in each country is expressed in an intensive way through the contents, nature and level of the emotional and cultural life through sports led by its people.
People lead emotional and cultural life not only through the appreciation of movies, music and works of art but through the direct participation in diversified sporting activities or the enjoying of games.
It tells that sports is a physical activity for the building up of body and, at the same time, one of spiritual and cultural life fields that fill diversified emotional demands of people.
It is imperative to make the noble, beautiful and sound mode of emotional and cultural life through sports prevail throughout the country in order to build a genuine civilized nation.
In the DPRK all working people take active part in the different sports games and enjoy the rich and diversified emotional and cultural life through sports while playing diversified folk games and amusements.
Different kinds of sports games including the spring and autumn sports meeting for kindergarteners and primary and middle school pupils, the national sports contest of workers, the national sports contest of agricultural workers, the national September 5 Prize sports contest of students, the sports contest of artistes, sports contest of public health workers, sports contests of civil servants of ministries and national institutions, the national inter-provincial games, the people’s sports contest, etc. are being held intensively contending for victory and all working people join themselves in the strong wind of conducting sports to lead the emotional and cultural life through sports.
On every national holiday and Sunday and at the recesses of the work, the Korean people form their teams by organs, enterprises, workshops and neighborhood units to have such diversified sports contests and amusements as football, basketball, volleyball, balls-hugged race, t
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In the days of building up their bodies and minds in gymnasiums and stadiums which are brisk with sports contests amidst the strong wind of conducting sports unprecedented in its scale and speed on a national scale, the Korean people experience true joy, pride and delight of life to their hearts’ content.
All Korean people, irrespective of age or sex, lead the cultural and emotional life through sports peculiar and unique to the Korean style while having such sports contests and amusements of peculiar national fragrance as Ssirum (Korean wrestling), swinging, seesawing, a tug of war, yut-game, top spinning, kite-flying, a shuttlecock game, etc. on the occasion of folk festivals including the lunar New Year’s Day, Jongwoldaeborum (January 15th on the lunar calendar) and Hangawi (lunar August 15th).
All Korean people including workers, farmers and intellectuals lead cultural and emotional life through sports while spending a time of recess with different exercises in modern sports and cultural service bases built thanks to the popular policy and benefit of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the state.
Modern sports and cultural service bases in the DPRK are available for all members of society.
Thanks to the Party’s benevolence, the DPRK built camps, rest homes, recreation grounds and sanatoria for schoolchildren, students, youth and working people at the picturesque scenic spots in mountains, seas and lakes and such modern mass sports and cultural service bases as wading and swimming pools, roller parks, seaside resorts and ski resort, etc.
In particular, the recently built Munsu Water Park, Mirim Riding Club and Masikryong Ski Resort are the modern mass sports and cultural service bases of which we can stand proud in the eyes of the world.
The Korean people’s cultural and emotional life through sports is the life which all people lead to their heart’s content in modern and mass sports and cultural service bases built by the Party and the state with large amounts of money invested and such life can be led only by millionaires and billionaires in the capitalist countries.
Like this, the Korean people lead sound and diversified cultural and emotional life through sports thanks to the benefits of the Party and the state dynamically pushing ahead the building of a socialist civilized nation.
