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Brisk Activities for Popularizing Mass Physical Culture and Sports in DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- Achievements made by athletes of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the international games this year have had a great influence on the activities for popularizing physical culture and sports activities. Industrial establishments and co-operative farms across the country have made best use of physical culture information board to give common knowledge and data on sports to the working people and pushed ahead the work to arrange more sports facilities.
    Meanwhile, running, health-promoting Taekwon-Do and mass rhythmic gymnastics have been made part and parcel of their life and colorful sports tournaments on the days of physical culture and other occasions.
    Schools have raised the quality of physical education and made all students participate in after-school physical culture and sports activities while pushing forward the work for arranging needed sports apparatuses.
    This year many units have been honored with the title of Model Physical Training Factory (Institution and Enterprise), Model Physical Training Farm, Twice Model Physical Training School and Model Physical Training School.
    Various sports tournaments were held this year. Among them are the 11th Sports Contest of Officials of National Institutions for Paektusan Cup, the 6th National Folk Sports Contest of Agricultural Workers, the 37th Sports Contest of Artistes and the 10th National Basketball Contest of Youth and Students for August 28 Youth Cup.
    The participants in the contests fully displayed their sports technique and collective spirit they had possessed in mass physical culture and sports activities.
    In particular, the 4th National Ssirum (Korean wrestling) Tournament for Grand Bull Prize was held at the Ssirum Ground on the Rungra Island in Pyongyang amid interest of the people throughout the country. On the folk holidays, women's yut-game and other folk amusement games were held in different parts of the country.
    The mass physical culture and sports activities have made the whole country full of revolutionary spirit.