Art Prodigies Trained
She was born in the city of Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province. She is said to have an excellent musical sense since her childhood.
She had an unusually rich musical sensibility. When she learned the violin in her kindergarten days, her teachers and villagers loved her as a promising player.
During her junior class of the Hamhung Art School, she proved successful in the national individual art contests of schoolchildren. When she was attending the then university class of the school, she competed with artistes of a dignified art troupe of the country and was selected for an individual art contest.
With such an uncommon record, Ryom Son Ok worked as a teacher at a kindergarten in the city of Hamhung and then at Tongmun Kindergarten No. 1 in Taedonggang District, devoting all her passion to the training of reserve artistes.
Teacher Ri Mi Yon said Ryom has not only enormous artistic talents but also high qualifications as a teacher, and continued:
"What is noteworthy in the teaching method of Section Chief Ryom Son Ok is that she puts much effort into the observation of children.
She carefully watches the behaviours of children without neglecting any spaces including lesson, play time and snack time.
In the course, she distinguishes the children with an instinct for music from those without it and lets them choose musical instruments according to their hopes and physical conditions. Then she educates them properly in line with their characters and hobbies.
It is her consistent view that every child should be taught differently no matter how much effort is needed."
With such high artistry and inherent teaching qualifications, Ryom Son Ok could train a lot of children wonderfully to win the national broadcasting art festival of children's music and the national art festival of kindergarten children and monopolize the stage of talented children.
In those days, she grew to be an excellent kindergartener and model teacher who was awarded a number of certificates of introduction of new teaching method and certificates of registration of educational and scientific successes.
Future artistes are growing up at the kindergarten today, too, thanks to such teachers as Section Chief Ryom Son Ok recognized as a woman of ability in the field of early musical education at kindergartens.