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There is a transport workteam formed with women in the Ryonmot battery bus company under the Pyongyang Municipal General Passenger Traffic Service Enterprise.

Kim Il Nam, head of the bus company, lavishes praise on the women’s transport workteam, most of whose members are married women, saying it is a group of innovators at the company who play a big part as much as men.

For them, women, the job as a driver in the field of passenger service is really difficult as they have to leave their houses early in the morning when others sleep and return home late at night.

But they love this job they chose.

Jang Hyon Suk is a driver who has successfully operated her bus one million kilometres without accidents over the past decades. One day before graduating from middle school she got on a trolley bus driven by a girl together with her friends.

Seeing the girl driver who had worked to promote the traffic convenience of citizens running along the streets of the capital city, she, who had wanted to do a worthwhile job for society and the collective, made up her mind to become a public bus driver.

Starting her career at the then Ryonmot Trolley Bus Station, Jang improved her driving technique and properly maintained her trolley bus there. Now she commands the respect of the collective as a labour innovator who always works without accident.

Kim Hong Ju, who began her social life as a conductress at the then Ryonmot Trolley Bus Station, became a driver with the help of his husband Jang Song Chol, a driver of the same station, and the collective after she tied the knot with him and now continues the long journey for serving the people.

All the women drivers of the workteam pay special attention to providing honoured disabled ex-soldiers and nursing mothers with convenience and take care of the sick persons they meet on the buses with familial love.

Driver Pak Kum Son has always treated passengers so kindly that she is called a “lovely driver”. And Kim Jin Hae helped an old man carrying a heavy load on her way back home late at night and performed lots of other good deeds to be called an “obliging girl driver”.

“I want to bow low to the women drivers whenever I see them devoting themselves to providing convenience to the citizens till late at night even on holidays when people have a good rest,” said Mok Kum Song, an employee of the Korea April 26 Animation Studio.

The women drivers continue to carry out their job, feeling the greatest pride in it in the warm smiles and polite greetings given by the passengers every day.