Jo Nov 5, 2025
Oungum is a musical instrument which was initiated, led to completion and named by Chairman
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Jo Nov 3, 2025
We should have a state-oriented attitude and patriotic stand towards the science and the era rather than wishing for any academic degrees or titles, honor or great scientific and technological successes. This is the remark made by Merited Scientist, Candidate Acad., Prof. Ph.D. Ri Mu Chol, an institute head of Bioengineering Institute, to the students taking the first step of research.
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Jo Nov 2, 2025
November has two seasonal divisions―riptong and sosol.
Riptong refers to the beginning of winter while sosol indicates the start of snowfall. The former falls on 7th or 8th and the latter falls on 22nd or 23rd of November.
What is important in the Korean people’s dietary practices was to make kimchi and to steam soybeans for making soybean paste of the next spring.
Regarding kimchi as important food supply for winter, the Korean people have long attached great importance to preparing kimchi. The materials and recipes were different in different parts of the country.
At this time every year, people made whole cabbage kimchi and other kinds of kimchi of different tastes and aromas peculiar to different localities including watery radish kimchi, wrapped-up kimchi and leaf-mustard kimchi.
The housewives of several families cooperated to make kimchi in turn and they regarded offering their fresh kimchi to their neighbours first as a moral practice.
Steaming and making balls of soybean for making soybean paste in the next spring was also an old custom handed down from generation to generation.
The folk games of this season include some indoor games like yut-game, paduk, Korean chess, etc. suitable for cold weather conditions and some outdoor games including kite-flying, shuttlecock, etc. enjoyed by children.
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Jo Oct 25, 2025
The International Conference―2025 of Kim Chaek University of Technology will be held in November 2025 in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPR Korea).
“Kim Chaek University of Technology International Conference―2025” aims to discuss recent achievements in a broad range of science and technology on the subject “Science and Technology―Power for Development and Strategic Means”.
We warmly welcome you (educators and scientists at home and abroad) to this conference to exchange valuable experiences and knowledge by presenting your latest academic findings/achievements and ideas in all areas of science and technology.
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Jo Oct 8, 2025
Hyonmu Gate is the north gate of the northern castle of the Walled City of Pyongyang of Koguryo on Moran Hill.
The gate was named after the mythological turtle symbolizing the God of the North, one of the four gods in charge of the four directions.
It was first built in the sixth century when the Walled City of Pyongyang was being built during the Koguryo dynasty and underwent repair and rebuilding several times during the Koryo dynasty. The present gate was rebuilt in 1714. After that, it underwent thorough repairs in 1855 and 1954.
The gate is made up of an embankment, the extension of the castle wall, and a tower on it.
Like the castle wall, the embankment is built with stones faced in the form of quadrangular pyramid that are placed one upon another to avoid longitudinally straight joint lines. There is an arched gate in the middle of it.
There are battlements on the embankment that is about 2.5 meters tall. The gatehouse is a single-eaves gabled house which is three kans (7.05m) in length and one kan in width.
Hyonmu Gate is a precious cultural legacy demonstrating the ardent patriotism and advanced castle gate architecture of the Korean ancestors.
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Jo Oct 5, 2025
Yut-game is a folk game in which players compete with each other moving pieces on the board as indicated by the faces of sticks.
It is one of the typical folk games enjoyed by the Korean people from olden times.
The terms used in the game “to”, “kae”, “kol”, “yut” (“shyung”) and “mo” are said to have originated from the job titles of the Puyo dynasty or from the purposes of breeding five kinds of domestic animals―pig, dog, sheep, cow and horse―distributed to five villages.
The yut-game is played with four sticks.
The sticks were usually made of wood, and chestnuts and beans were also used instead of wood sticks.
Round straight wood sticks 2 centimeters in diameter and 10-15 centimeters long were split in two semi-circle sticks for the game.
Who moved pieces round more on the board than opponents as indicated by the faces of sticks was the winner.
The yut-game, which has been enjoyed by the Korean people from olden times, is still being widely played on public holidays including the Lunar New Year’s Day.
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