The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un always pays close attention to providing his people with wonderful material and cultural living conditions.The following happened on October 16, Juche 103 (2014) when he visited the completed apartment buildings for the lecturers at Kim Chaek University of Technology.After receiving the greetings of a senior official of the university, he, looking at the high-rise buildings, said that the buildings were attractive and they looked like sailing boats on the Taedong River.Then he continued: These apartment houses look like a hotel; as it attaches importance to Kim Chaek University of Technology, the Party had such wonderful houses built for it; I feel very pleased to think that such wonderful flats will be provided to the teachers of the university.Hearing him, the officials recollected the painstaking efforts h...

On July 2, Juche 101 (2012), the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Pyongyang Children’s Department Store prior to its inauguration.After receiving the greetings of the officials of the department store, he looked round the counters on the first floor filled with a wide variety of goods.Then he stopped before a children’s play area.The play area was newly laid out according to his instruction. When he visited the department store in late May, he referred to the need to make a play area on each floor and suggested the ways to this end, saying: It is not necessary to have a separate room for that purpose but just a hall or a certain area furnished with playground equipment will do.Later, play areas were laid out. They were furnished with various colourful pieces of playground equipment. Feasting his eyes on the play area, ...

One day in May Juche 101 (2012) the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited Changjon Street prior to its inauguration.At a restaurant he sat in a chair and advised to design and make pieces of furniture convenient to use and nice-looking. At a wedding-ceremony restaurant he said with a smile that he was curious to know who would be the first to have their wedding ceremony there. Then he carefully looked at the upper part of a stand. After a while, he said to the perplexed officials that stands should have shades, and that they should install shades at outdoor stands without fail, adding that then the visitors could keep themselves out of the rain under the shades.Several days later, he came to the street again.On a balcony of a flat on the 45-storey apartment, the tallest building on the street, he enjoyed a panoramic view of the street built o...

The twin apartment buildings for the lecturers at Kim Chaek University of Technology constructed in the shape of sailing boats on the bank of the Taedong River embody the Workers’ Party of Korea’s idea of attaching importance to science and talented persons and the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s painstaking efforts and benevolence for educationists. On October 16, Juche 103 (2014), he visited the completed apartment buildings to provide the teachers and researchers at the university with excellent houses. It was his third visit to them.Saying that the buildings were wonderful and they looked like sailing boats on the Taedong River, he looked round the buildings with satisfaction.In a flat on the 46th floor, the top floor, he said: It would be good to provide such flats to young teachers or researchers with small families; I heard that flat...