Some time ago, I went to the apartment houses for teachers of Kim Chaek University of Technology in Mirae Scientists Street to meet Kim Min U, department head of the power science faculty, Kim Chaek University of Technology. Kim’s family lives in flat No. 1 on the 32nd floor of block No. 1. The flat consists of a cosy living room, a room for the Kims and that for their children, a study and so on. A bookcase in the living room contained many certificates of registered sci-tech achievements and of applied sci-tech achievements and those of invention Kim had received. All his family members are graduates from the aforesaid university and teachers.
It was under the influence of his father that Min U chose his present career after graduating from the university.
His father had worked as a teacher at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School for over ten years. As a child, Min U often heard his father talking about President
Kim Il Sung
who had frequently visited the revolutionary school. What follows below is an anecdote he heard from his father. One day, during his visit to the school, the President found the school’s barber feeling ashamed of his job. Then the President encouraged the barber, saying,
“I cannot pat all the schoolchildren on the head. But you’re cutting hair of the lovely precious children, stroking their heads. What a good thing it is!”
At that time, Min U’s father made up his mind to do a lot of things for the pupils whom the President held so dear. Since then he always shared bitters and sweets with his pupils and took his great pleasure in teaching them.
When Min U was to give a first lecture, his father told him in detail about how to behave before students and how to teach them. Min U’s wife Yu Kwi Ok also gave her “first lesson” in front of her father-in-law before beginning to work as a teacher at a junior middle school. Yu is held in respect as an able teacher. She and her husband were classmates studying at the same desk in their university days. Min U positively helped his wife. Thanks to his effort, Yu distinguished herself at national educational experimental apparatuses and teaching aids shows.
Their eldest daughter Kim Jin Hyang is also a teacher with the shortest term in the career among the family. But she is regarded as a promising teacher. She took lessons from her mother in her school days and from her father in her university days.
Her father and mother were popular with their students and pupils for their good lectures, and they were very glad to get the news that their disciples had become heroes and doctors. This made her determined to work like her parents. And, it is said, the images of her parents were the first to rise in her mind when she stood before pupils at class for the first time.
Jin Hyang’s younger sister Un Hyang began to work as a librarian at the information service office of the Sci-Tech Complex after graduating from the electrical engineering faculty, Kim Chaek University of Technology. She takes pride in providing information to all parts of the country.
On New Year’s Day and other holidays, the house is visited by lots of people including disciples of Min U, his wife and Jin Hyang and readers frequenting Un Hyang’s office. Min U said that his family took greatest pride in dedicating themselves to the education of the country’s future pillars.
Thinking that the family’s pride in their career was the great asset of not only the family but all other similar families across the country, I left the house.
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《Korea Ryugilo Editorial Bureau》
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