is located in Tongdaewon District, Pyongyang.

President Kim Il Sung, who had achieved the historic cause of liberating Korea from the Japanese military occupation on August 15, 1945, paid great attention to establishing a university for training teachers from the early period of building a new country.

Thanks to his close attention, Pyongyang Teachers Training College was founded on October 1, 1946, as the first of its kind in the country, and promoted in October 1948 to Pyongyang University of Education of four years.

During the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950 - July 1953), it moved to Chungnyol-ri in Phihyon County, North Phyongan Province, and continued its work to train future teachers.

Later it was called Pyongyang University of Education No. 1. And in March 1975 it was named after Kim Hyong Jik, an outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea and a revolutionary educationist. Hence its name Kim Hyong Jik University of Education at present.

Its original mission was to train teachers for middle schools, and it was restructured as educational establishment for lecturers of teacher-training colleges in June 1980. In September 1987 it was developed into a centre for training lecturers qualified for university education.

The entrance to the university bears a tablet inscribed with the handwriting of President Kim Il Sung in 1994 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Hyong Jik.

At present Kim Hyong Jik University of Education has been developed into a hub of education, information, data service and distance education in the country’s teachers training sector.

Its staff are composed of several hundred lecturers with academic degrees and titles like candidate academician, professor and doctor.

Promising students selected from all parts of the country are enrolled at the educational science college and faculties of social and natural sciences, including philosophy, history, mathematics and physics, and are studying major subjects according to their hopes and abilities and on scholarships.

The university has recently developed new subjects in the fields of social, natural and cross-disciplinary sciences, several thousand online teaching plans, and effective education-support programs. All the lecture rooms are turned into multifunctional ones, and new teaching methods being applied as required by the current development of education, rendering a substantial contribution to improving the students’ academic performance.

Its scientific research institutes, amply provided with material and technological foundations and competent personnel, are achieving remarkable successes in their efforts to go beyond the cutting edge, develop the country’s economy and improve the people’s living standards.

The university has so far produced among its graduates a great number of prominent educationists, scientists, artists, sportspersons and others, including the winners of Kim Il Sung Prize, and DPRK and Labour Heroes.

Kim Hyong Jik University of Education that has adorned its history with brilliant achievements in the country’s history of education, is making strenuous efforts to implement the line of prioritizing science and education constantly pursued by the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government of the DPRK to make a leap forward by dint of science and guarantee the future by dint of education.