These are conjugal workers who have been working at the Songyo Knitwear Factory in the capital Pyongyang for more than 40 years.
Choe Pong Hwa and Ri Chol Ho
In the factory people say that work-team head Ri Chol Ho is reticent and has a strong desire for work and his wife Choe Pong Hwa is cheerful, warmhearted and strenuous.
Ri Chol Ho always takes the lead in difficult tasks and sincerely helps his team members, solving problems arising in their life. His work-team overfulfills its assignment under the national economic plan before others every year.
His wife Choe Pong Hwa is also a labour innovator. Her photo is always seen on the billboard for the honoured together with the photo of her husband.
Ri is proud of his wife as she is good at her job and looks after the family harmoniously. And Choe is encouraged by her husband who is always taking warm care of her.
Helping and leading each other forward, they made valuable inventions needed for normalized production.
In those days, they came to be respected as an affectionate couple and conjugal innovators.
Whenever people call them conjugal innovators, they feel happy and proud of working hard for the country.
Press statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK
Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press
January 11, 2026
Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press
