Important is the position and role of culture in the people’s life and social development.
After the socialist system, the DPRK has gained precious experiences in establishing the advanced and popular socialist national culture that brings up the popular masses, masters of the society, to be powerful beings and fully realizes their cultural and sentimental demands by developing culture as required by the great Juche idea.
President Kim Il Sung said.
“Our people have established a fine socialist national culture under the correct leadership of the Party.”
The DPRK, first of all, have created precious experience of establishing the people-centred culture in which the popular masses become genuine masters and enjoyers of culture.
The brilliant reality of the DPRK, the “country of education” and “land of learning”, where all people study, is a clear proof of it.
Thanks to the DPRK’s well-arranged systems of 11-year compulsory education, higher education and refresher course where the state gives education to the people with responsibility, they study free of charge irrespective of their age and sex.
Not only education but also literature and art become popular ones created and enjoyed by the popular masses.
Korea gives not only the politico-ideological education and education in general knowledge, but also some other education to the children and young people so that they can have all-round cultural attainments during the 11-year compulsory education period.
Cultural art groups are formed everywhere of the country such as in educational institutions, factories, enterprises, co-op farms and state organs at all levels and cultural centers, theatres and cinemas are built in all parts of the country. Artistic and cultural activities of pupils and working people are guided in the cultural centers. As a result, the DPRK has amateur writers, poets, artists, composers and singers among the working masses except professional writers and artistes and the former’s artistic activities become a daily routine.
Various annual national exhibitions, singing contests of the working people and artistic festivals of service people clearly show the true appearance and development of literature and art that all people are enjoying as genuine masters.
The DPRK’s public health service is genuine and popular one that serves the people‘s good health and longevity.
Korea enforces the complete free medical care system for its members in all items--from a medical advice fee to a fee for doctor’s visit, operation charges and hospitalization charges.
Development of the socialist national culture where the people-centered Juche idea is embodied can be found not only in the most superior socialist education system, universal and complete free medical care system and the Juche-oriented literature and art but also in the fields of physical culture that is made mass-based and a part of daily life and mass media.
The DPRK has also created precious experiences of building the independent culture that applies the Juche character and national character.
The Korean people have preserved and developed the inherent and superior cultural traditions of the nation that was historically formed and consolidated, created the new and developed culture in an independent and creative way as masters.
Korea has created literature and art--national in form and socialist in content--that is implanted in the people’s mind and led them so that they can be loyal to the socialist cause and aspire for life of a genuine man. It has also developed science and technology on the principle of solving scientific and technical problems urgently demanded by reality in its own way and by its own efforts to ensure the independent development of the country and national prosperity.
Korea has also flourished and developed the sectors of mass media, public health service and physical culture so that it can further preserve and develop fine cultural traditions in accordance with historical and actual conditions and give a strong impetus to the socialist cause. As a result, the Juche-oriented culture of the country has been endowed with a true feature of the perfect socialist national culture whose national aspiration is united with its socialist ideal and made an active contribution to development of the progressive culture of the humankind and the universal socialist culture.
The DPRK has also created precious experiences of building the most advanced culture all of whose sectors attain a high level of modern civilization.
Thus it realizes the popular masses’ demand for an independent and creative cultural life in a broad way and on a high level.
The state is responsible for all sectors of culture and makes huge investments in them to establish culture in a planned way, and makes entire people enjoy it by social policies and laws, thus improving their cultural life day by day.
The DPRK’s all sectors of culture are on a high phase attained by the progressive culture and intelligence of modern humankind.
Thanks to the advanced and popular educational system, intellectualization of the whole society is under the successful realization and literature and art such as cinema, drama, opera, fine arts, music, dance, acrobatics, etc. are now in a booming period of its development under the wise guidance of the leader and the Party.
The Korean people are fully enjoying their happy and sound cultural and sentimental life in cultural facilities built across the country including Mansudae Art Theatre and Hamhung Grand Theatre and places for cultural life such as recreation grounds and resorts built in every scenic spot.
Reality of the DPRK where preventive and curative organs are well-organized at all national, provincial, city, county (district) and ri levels and district medical care system is enforced to regularly conduct the works of various preventive vaccines, examinations and treatments is showing how far its popular public health service has developed.
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