A ceremony for awarding the WIPO National Inventor Prize, the WIPO National Creation Prize, the WIPO National Children’s Prize and the WIPO National Enterprise Prize was held on July 30.

The winners are as follows:

Winners of WIPO National Inventor Prize

The WIPO National Inventor Prize was awarded to Sin Kye Ryong, professor, PhD and section chief of the Chemistry Faculty of Kim Il Sung University, and Jo Son Ok, PhD and director of the Moksong external construction economic and technological cooperation company.

They invented an antibiotic composite and a disposable wet paper using the composite.

This IP product with antibacterial and anti-inflammatory functions is effective in the treatment of various diseases such as skin disease, neuralgia and arthritis.

Made with a rare earth element abundant in the country as the main material, it is popular with many people for the remarkably high recovery rate in the treatment of diseases. The product won first place at the Advanced Science and Technology and Products Exhibition-2024 and in the industrial property sector of the Intellectual Property Development Exhibition-2024 held in the DPRK last year.

And it was presented to the DPRK Commodity Festival-2024 held in Russia last year, winning popularity among visitors.

Winner of WIPO National Creation Prize

The winner of the WIPO National Creation Prize is Choe Ryon, PhD, associate professor and lecturer at the Korean language faculty of Kim Il Sung University.

She wrote a full-length novel “Burn with Your Youthful Ardour”.

The novel has evoked an enthusiastic response from many readers for the high ideological and artistic value since its publication.

It implants in the readers sheer determination and ardent patriotic feelings to glorify their youth for the country and people with noble ideals and ambitions.

Popular with the broad sections of working people as well as scientists, technicians and students, it won first place in the copyright sector of the Intellectual Property Development Exhibition-2024 last year.

After being published in the form of printed book, the blockbuster novel was posted as an e-book and carried in newspapers and magazines, ranking first on the popularity list of full-length novels on the theme of reality.

Winner of WIPO National Children’s Prize

So Jae Ung, a student at Changdok School, received the WIPO National Children’s Prize.

He invented a sci-fi model “Farming robot”.

With an ambition to become an expert in machinery who can make any modern farm machines, So Jae Ung conceived of a farming robot to which AI technology was applied and made a model to mechanize and fully automate all the dry-field farm work in various conditions and environments.

The model won the top prize at the National Exhibition of Children's Science Fiction Models and Inventions-2024 last year.

Winner of WIPO National Enterprise Prize

The Korea Oriental Instant Medicine Centre obtained the WIPO National Enterprise Prize.

The employees of the centre hold dozens of intellectual property rights including trademarks, patents and copyrights and widely employ them to achieve prosperity and development of their unit.

Having grown into a high-tech enterprise where the research and development, production and sale are integrated, the centre produces lots of patent goods, medicines and health foods, which are very popular at home and abroad.

Many foreign businesses want to work together with it, especially for the production of over a dozen kinds of medicines and health foods including the blood vessel washing agent and NeoViagra-Y.R. which are produced by employing patent technologies.