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Working Women

Choe Yong Ae, Principal of the Toksong Primary School in the city of Phyongsong attached to the Phyongsong Teachers Training College, is one of the working women who make their sincere efforts not only at home but also at work.
She has been working at the school for 50 years.
Since she began her career as a teacher, she has applied the heuristics to train the pupils as future pillars with high ability.
She became the head of a department, vice-principal and principal. She strengthened edification among the teachers so that they could devote all their soul to education with responsibility for the future of the rising generations and tried hard to improve their qualifications.
Some years ago, there was a pupil who failed to get familiar with school life at the class under the charge of a girl teacher.
He was not bright as he grew under the care of a widower. Principal Choe Yong Ae brought him to her house and took care of him so that he could settle down in the school life.
Feeling her warm maternal love, the pupil studied hard and entered a university.
A small box can be seen in every classroom of the school.
The box contains different colours of cloth, needles and threads, buttons and so on necessary for repairing school uniforms.
The small box was made at the proposal of Principal Choe Yong Ae, which represents her love for the pupils.
Teachers of the school prepared such boxes in their classrooms to care about the dress of the pupils.

Principal Choe Yong Ae always stood in the van of the whole country not only in improving the educational conditions and environment of the school to ensure the primary school education on a high level but also in running tens of after-school circles to develop the talents of pupils according to their aptitude and individuality.
She says:
"Love for one's occupation gives rise to love for one's workplace and love for one's workplace to devoted work. Furthermore, we are the educators bringing up the future of the country. Working hard for the prosperity of the country at our workplace is patriotism, I think."
Principal Choe Yong Ae was awarded the title of People's Teacher in 2012 and the title of Meritorious Person of Socialist Patriotism in 2017.
Yo Sun Yong, a projector operator at the Songyo Cinema in the capital city of Pyongyang, has been devotedly working to disseminate films for 54 years.

She began her career as a projector operator in the 1970s. She called at major construction sites several times a day to screen films. In those days, she remodelled projectors and made persistent efforts to improve the picture and sound qualities.
She worked day and night to disseminate new films promptly.
When people are watching a film with great interest, those who project it operate the equipment with intensity.
Yo Sun Yong has long screened films tens of thousand times, making an active contribution to the cultural and emotional life of the capital citizens. So, she was awarded the title of Merited Projector Operator in 2013.
She would come home late at night even on holidays. Watching the life of their mother, her children came to realize the real worth of life.
Her sons Pak Yong Chol, Pak Sun Il and Pak Song Il, who regard national defence as the highest expression of patriotism, are glorifying their lives as officers of the Korean People's Army.
Mothers are devoting their lives to the country beyond the bounds of their homes, regarding the appellation of working women as a great honour. They convince many children in this country of the true meaning of life and patriotism.