Kyongru-dong, Central District in Pyongyang, piled up with peculiar terraced dwelling houses along the bank of Pothong River is a place for the people’s happy living built with care by the Workers’ Party of Korea in celebration of the 110th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.
Dwelling houses in this village are wonderful, multi-storeyed and luxurious ones from which one can estimate the DPRK’s level of architectural civilization. Those who received these modern terraced dwelling houses free of charge are working people including labor innovators and persons of merit in all sectors, scientists, educators and men of literature who have served the Party and the state with devotion.
Writer Ho Mun Gil, the Kim Il Sung Prize Winner is one of them.
Ho graduated from the writing department, linguistics faculty of Kim Il Sung University and he is now 74 years old. Ho is a well-known writer who has produced 24 pieces of medium- and full-length novels, several short stories and scenarios characteristic in width and depth as well as in material.
One can see a modernly-designed kitchen, dining room and guest room arranged in harmony and a quiet study with bedroom and washroom so that Ho can work in speculation on the lower floor. His house is the Party’s and the state’s high appreciation for Ho who has lived his whole life as a writer loved by the people.
Ho sent a letter of thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un. In the letter he resolved to write more novels that would be a cultural wealth of the nation in order to pay up the love of Kim Jong Un who gave him a luxurious house at the time when the country was in the worst situation unprecedented in history due to worldwide health crisis.
