Thursday, March 08, 2018

Respected Women Deputies
Deputies to people's assemblies of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are held in respect and affection by the people. Not a few of them are women referred to as flowers of the society and a synonym for beauty.

Enterprising Officer

“It’s really wonderful. Maybe people will like it,” a woman said contentedly seeing varieties of clothes produced by a clothing factory they had built by themselves. She was Jo Yong Hui, director of the Hanggu District Commercial Management Office in Nampho City. Though having a dream of becoming a scientist in her school days, she has devoted her life to public welfare work, for the following reason.

Her father, who had been a war veteran and hero company commander, volunteered to work as a cobbler with a welfare service centre after being discharged from the military service, though he was able to enter a university. Rain or shine, he repaired shoes to order and made a long journey to visit a factory, enterprise or school to undertake mobile services. This deeply impressed Yong Hui. So, when she moved to Nampho following her husband after marriage, she unhesitatingly decided to become a worker of the commercial management office.

Since then Jo has been invariably engrossed in the welfare service, always without being content with what she did. She saw to it that the district’s all industrial goods shops and grocer’s shops were renovated nicely and that a lot of modern houses were built for demobilized officers. The office also cultivated tens of hectares of land to produce raw materials for production of foodstuffs and built a fish farm of hundreds of square metres and vinegar and fermented soy sauce production bases for improving the local people’s diet.

Whenever such bases increased one by one, the local residents congratulated and admired Jo, and she said, “Still I have a lot of work to do to meet the people’s demand.”

Residents of the district call her our deputy and enterprising officer.

Motto of Life

“Work devotedly!” This is said by Ryu Un Hui who has devoted her life to the treatment of people’s eye diseases. She is a deputy to the Pyongyang Municipal People’s Assembly and the director of the Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital. As an ophthalmologist who specializes in the treatment of people’s eyes she regards it as her creed and motto of life to work devotedly to restore sight to the blind.

Thanks to her mother who was a doctor of a hospital, Ryu had a lot of opportunities to come into contact with medicine and could easily read many medical books in her childhood. This is how she stepped into the world of medicine. She started her career as a doctor at the Pyongyang Ophthalmic Hospital after graduating from the then Pyongyang University of Medicine. At that time she determined to put an end to the misfortune and agony of those suffering from eye diseases.

It was, however, not an easy job to carry her determination into practice. Sometimes she sat up several nights attending to a patient whose condition became worse rapidly after operation. And it was not once or twice that she lost confidence over a patient who did not get well even after a long treatment. But she never gave up. Thinking of the misfortune and agony of the patients, she accelerated the relevant research and treatment as sincerely as she should do for her own sisters and brothers.

She read the paper Research on Clinical Epidemiology of Senile Cataract at the 25th medical science seminar of the national ophthalmology sector, issued scores of other papers such as Research to Improve the Efficiency of Vitrectomy Using Corneal Prism Lens and Clinical Research on Change of Corneal Thickness after Cataract Operation, and invented over ten devices including lens capsule extension ring and an ophthalmic operating microscope. Additionally, she depicted in some books including Nursing of Eye Diseases and Nutrition her experience and technology gained in ophthalmic research and treatment and devotion for the good of people.

Work devotedly, then comes light.

This truth is always impressed on her mind.

Spring Woman

It cannot be said that beauty and fresh fragrance of spring can be experienced only in a flower garden that draws bees and butterflies or a field where the air is shimmering with heat. Such fragrance can be experienced at Pomhyanggi (Spring Fragrance) cosmetics counters of different shops in the capital city of Pyongyang and other provinces. In the shops you can see girls carelessly touching this and that of scores of kinds of lipsticks and middle-aged women examining fragrance of transparent soap, shampoo and rinse of different kinds and colours. Pomhyanggi cosmetics are popular with not only women but also men and the elderly. This is attributable to lifelong efforts of Kim Hye Yong, the general manager of the Sinuiju Cosmetics Factory. It was 17 years ago that she was appointed to the present post. Full of gratitude to the country and the people for entrusting the factory to her, a daughter of an ordinary worker, she worked hard to provide people with lasting spring fragrance so as to live up to their expectations. What she insisted on and aimed to do was to satisfy not only tastes of women but also demand of people of different ages and strata.

She devoted all her efforts and wisdom to cosmetics production. As a result, the factory completed the modernization of water purification and air conditioning processes and put production processes on an automatic flow-line basis, thus laying the foundations for making the production processes unmanned and free from dust and germs. This made it possible to improve the quality of cosmetics remarkably.

Cosmetics from the factory were recognized as excellent at many festivals and exhibitions held at home and abroad. Tests by BIO-EC Institute of France made the cosmetics recognized as remarkable in their functions of retarding aging, convergence and moisturizing and whitening functions.

As a deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly, the general manager is devoting herself to her job as ever.

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