Mass-based sports is an important affair to make all members of the society train their body and provide them with physical guarantee for good health and longevity by making them regularly participate in sports activities.
Mass-based sports is one of important criteria showing a country’s sports development level.
The DPRK is now brisk more than before in the mass-based sports in accordance with the Party’s plan of building a sports power.
First of all, sports becomes mass-based and a part of everyday life in a broad way.
In the DPRK all rising generations, from kindergarten children to university students, workers, farmers, intellectuals, officials and other broad masses participate in mass sports activities such as running in the morning, exercise during recesses, health-promoting Taekwon-do (Korean martial art) and rhythmic gymnastics.
In the world there are many countries that are supposed to make sports popular, but the levels of popularity are different.
In some countries one or two items of sports are popular and under social concern and their popularity reaches relatively high level. Some countries proclaimed it as state policy to make sports popular and some other countries take several measures to make the broad people participate in sports regularly. However, there may be no country but the DPRK in which all people participate in sports activities and they are astir and brisk with sports throughout the country.
In making sports mass-based, the DPRK conducts physical training by relying on the scientific and effective physical training means and methods suited to their characteristics in profession, sex, age and physical body.
Colourful sports activities are conducted in schools in a planned way by relying on the effective means and methods to make students and pupils tall and develop their physical bodies in harmony. All the working people choose sports items according to their character, hobby and physical condition and conduct them regularly, thus removing every kind of stress in time and working with youthful energy, in confidence and optimism.
Next, the state provides enough social conditions necessary for making sports mass-based with responsibility at state expense in the DPRK.
The DPRK makes everyone participate regularly and compulsorily in sports activities such as August-September national physical fitness examination period, July-August maritime physical training period, sports month and day, holiday of sports, spring and autumn sports games, etc. to develop his or her body, ensuring the most advanced and superior mass-based sports system in the world.
Regular mass-based sports contest system is established according to strata, regions and sectors, including the national sports contest of workers, the national sports contest of agricultural workers, the sports contest of public health workers, the national “September 5 Prize” sports contest of students, the people’s sports comtest, the national inter-provincial games, the Grand Bull Prize National Ssirum Contest and so on.
In addition, the state not only builds at its expense such various kinds of modern and mass sports centres furnished with up-to-date equipment as stadiums, gymnasiums, cultural halls, beach resorts, ski resort and riding club but enforces social policies to make the people enjoy them to their hearts’ contents.
In the DPRK, the mass-based brisk sports activities play a big role in developing the people’s physical culture and building a powerful sports country.
