Juche

    Before the Korean revolution that won victory in the three-year long Fatherland Liberation War, intensifying the education of the people in patriotism presented as an issue that was no less urgent and important one than the rehabilitation of the dislocated national economy.

    Penetrating deep into the importance of education through the superior culture of life and manners in educating people in patriotism, President Kim Il Sung initiated the founding of the Korean Folklore Museum and managed the preparation even though everything was in short in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea after the war.

    Hence, the National Central Folklore Museum (predecessor of the Korean Folklore Museum) was founded in February 1956. A reliable research base capable of comprehensively retaining the superior culture of life and manners of the Korean nation, a base for unearthing, collecting and preserving the folklore relics could be provided thanks to the founding of the museum and it could serve as the base capable of inspiring the working people with national pride, self-confidence and patriotism.

    After the establishment of the museum, the President paid deep attention to the undertaking of the museum and gave precious instructions as regard with the questions awaiting solution.

    In the early days of its establishment, the officials in the museum had failed to find what to do first as the scientific contents and material foundation of the museum were insufficient and they had no experience in managing the museum. At that time in June 1960, the President came to the museum.

    Looking round the interior and exterior of the museum, the President instructed to newly build the museum in the city.

    At the end of May 1972, the President acquainted himself with a relief model of major construction projects and instructed again to build the folklore museum.

    Indeed, the President’s proposal for founding the folklore museum in the trial period after the war was the one of love for the country and nation containing the valuable guideline expecting the people in the DPRK to further add brilliance to their superior folklore tradition, with great national pride and self-confidence in the future too.