culture

Students with unusual careers attend the the writers training course of the Philology and Literature Faculty of Kim Hyong Jik University of Education.

They were literary correspondents who cultivated their creative talents as they worked as “worker poets” at the workplaces. Today they, as students of the the writers training course specializing in training reserve writers, are taking literary classes under the guidance of competent lecturers.

They became students of the university according to the state measures to give education to promising literary correspondents at the university to be reserve writers.

Kim Myong Bom, who was enrolled in the course a few years ago, is one of them.

He began to write poems full of enthusiasm about the worthwhile military service. After being demobbed, he continued to describe in poems the optimism of working life as he worked at a public service unit in Huichon City of Jagang Province.

“Whenever I heard the news about the holding of a national prize mass literary work contest, I could hardly repress the urge to take part in it. One day, the teacher, who was in charge of my class during the middle school days, visited and encouraged me to take part in the prize contest embracing all the working people, saying that everyone could nurture talents if he or she is determined,” Kim said. So he composed poems showing the true feelings of working life and won several prizes in such contests.

The country highly valued his talent and gave him an opportunity to study at the university. During the university years he wrote a lyric “Spring Smiles and Future Smiles”, which gave pleasure to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

She loved literature in her school days and did not stop writing poems while working after graduating from the middle school. But she had never thought that her talent was uncommon.

The bud of her talent that even she had not known was found and cultivated by the officials in charge of guidance of creative work of the Central Committee of the Writers Union of Korea.

Influential writers came to the Rason area in the northern tip of the country to give guidance to the creative activities of a girl worker and state measures were taken including the short training course which is offered every year to provide creative lessons to literary correspondents. They greatly helped her improve her creative ability day by day.

As a result, she composed a lyric “Another Line of ‘Rails’” in the national prize lyric poem contest held last year in celebration of the 76th founding anniversary of the DPRK and gave pleasure to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Recently, she has also enrolled on the course of Kim Hyong Jik University of Education.

They were ordinary working people, but now they are studying to their heart’s content at the university, full of hope for the future.