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The Nampho Students and Children’s Palace in Waudo District of Nampho Municipality has undergone a complete renovation.

Standing in the heart of the city, the palace consists of the main building and gymnasium. In the main building, there are rooms of many hobby groups, including foreign language, program development and accordion groups, and a theatre where an artistic performance can be given.

In the gym which is connected with the main building by an access corridor, there are sports facilities with which schoolchildren can play various indoor sports including basketball, volleyball and badminton, and welfare facilities.

Kim Pong Hui, director of the palace, said every viewer of the palace, which became incomparably splendid in all aspects including location and scale, says a palatial extracurricular education base has been built. “I feel the pride in being an educator and a sense of heavy responsibility as well,” she added.

According to her, an extracurricular education base for schoolchildren in Nampho was built for the first time in 1968. At that time, it was named the Nampho City Students and Children’s Hall in South Phyongan Province. The hall had 16 teachers and five hobby groups including vocal, fine art and dance groups. It was renamed the Nampho City Students and Children’s Hall and then the Nampho Students and Children’s Palace. It increased the number of hobby groups and improved the quality of education to train schoolchildren to be the pillars of the country prepared in an all-round way.

As a result, many of its students entered the rankings in national competitions and were enrolled at schools of higher grade and selected to professional art groups and sports clubs to exalt the honour of the country. Among them, there are People’s Athlete Ham Su Gyong, three-time world Taekwon-Do champion, and People’s Athlete Ri Chol Rim, a world Taekwon-Do champion.

These successes are attributed to the great abilities of instructors of the palace and their devotion to education.

Many instructors possess remarkable abilities. In particular, Director Kim Pong Hui and Pak Hye Son, instructor of the basic science group, are excellent educators who received great acclaim by presenting an essay on the dynamic classification of study psychology and a reference guide for math teachers at the national exhibitions of educational and scientific achievements. Pak attended the 14th National Conference of Teachers and the 15th one which was held this year.

It is the unanimous aspiration of the palace’s instructors to put extracurricular education also on a scientific footing.

The director said that the palace has been working for years with researchers of relevant fields to develop a program for assessing the aptitudes and individuality of students and finding out talents of relevant fields.