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Under the special care of the state

Date: 17/05/2022 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

Schoolchildren’s palaces, halls of schoolchildren, children’s camps and juvenile sports schools for new generations are found in all provinces, cities and counties across the country.

In the DPRK, the state takes full responsibility for education of the rising generation, providing everything from educational conditions and environment to school uniform and things and increasing expenditure on education.

Under such state policy, the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace was wonderfully built in Pyongyang on May 2 1989 as a comprehensive base for extracurricular education of schoolchildren.

The Ninth Plenary Meeting of the Sixth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea held in July 1984 discussed the matter of wonderfully building a schoolchildren’s palace in the Mangyongdae area with beautiful landscape.

The artist's impressions and design of the palace were finished in a unique style as a matter of state concern and the palace was completed in a little more than two years.

Built in an area of over 214 000 square metres, the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace has a building area of some 105 000 square metres.

It consists of the eight-storey main building and four-storey building for general art training. It also has an outdoor practice ground for learning driving skills, playground, green park and dormitory.

With daily accommodation for over 5 000 schoolchildren, the palace is fully equipped with all conditions for schoolchildren, including more than 150 rooms for group and other activities in the fields of science, the arts and sports, a general art training hall, gymnasium, swimming pool, 1 500-seat theatre, library housing over 40 000 books, electronic entertainment hall and 4D simulation cinema.

Though it is provided with full educational conditions and environment, the state continues to show particular interest in its work.

As a result, it was completely renovated in 2015 in line with the requirements of the new century and its educational facilities and fixtures continue to be updated including better musical instruments and sporting goods.

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