culture

The first full moon day (the 15th day of the first month according to lunar calendar), or jongwoldaeborum, added pleasure and optimism to the DPRK people.

The folk holiday is greeted every year, but everyone greeted the first full moon day of this year, when the blueprint for a new great victory was unveiled, with an unusual emotion and pride.

People’s laughter and songs resounded far and wide across the country on the pleasant holiday.

Families and neighbours gathered together to eat traditional holiday dishes such as boiled rice admixed with four other staple cereals and to play folk games with zest.

Looking round the Rangnang Museum built in a unique style in Pyongyang, the working people, youth and students realized that the time-honoured history, brilliant culture and excellent traditions of the Korean people are invariably kept and shining under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

On the same day, Okryu Restaurant and Chongnyu Restaurant, Kyongamsan Noodle House in Sariwon, Sinhung Restaurant in Hamhung, Kaesong Folk Hotel and other public catering establishments in Pyongyang and other parts of the country were crowded with people enjoying the holiday with several kinds of special dishes.

The laughter of working people, youth and students was heard at the Central Zoo, the Natural History Museum and other leisure facilities.

On the night of the folk holiday, the people across the country committed themselves to working harder for the steady prosperity and development of the powerful country, true to the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.