In April Juche 110 (2021), five-year-old Yu Po Gyong was enrolled at Ryomyong Kindergarten in Taesong District, Pyongyang.
Soon after that, Pak Mi Hwa, teacher of the girl’s class, found that the girl was unusually different from other children as she always drew something on paper.
One day it was a drawing lesson.
Feasting her eyes on the children engrossed in copying a picture in the textbook, the teacher stopped before the drawing paper of Yu.
Her circles and vertical lines were exact compared to those of other children of the same age.
The teacher was surprised.
She asked the girl to copy other pictures in the textbook, and she came up to her teacher’s expectations.
No matter what pictures the teacher assigned, the girl immediately composed them in a bold way and drew them correctly.
“How can you draw so well, Po Gyong?”
“I’d like to draw everything around me.”
Only then did the teacher realize why she always drew something on paper.
Afterwards, the teacher became enthusiastic in teaching the girl drawing.
Surprisingly, she absorbed all the knowledge she had learned without feeling bored, and when she was taught one, she understood more than one. Gradually, she came to draw on paper the feelings she got from phenomena and the surrounding environment.
The volume of sheets of her drawing papers grew thicker with each passing day, and her drawing skills as well as the level of thinking improved remarkably.
At last she completed her sketch Helping One Another, a personified depiction of children devoting their sincerity to the afforestation of the country, and presented it to the national pencil drawing and calligraphy festival held as part of the national fine art festival Lifetime of Patriotic Devotion in celebration of the Day of the Shining Star in February last year.
She produced it after hearing, while tending the flowering trees planted in the compound of the kindergarten, her teacher’s saying that the one who takes good care of even a single tree is a patriot, and that they should all grow up into such laudable persons. Her work was highly appreciated at the festival.
It was presented to the International Charity Festival Children to Children-2023 held in Russia last May, causing a sensation among many people.
Now the girl is a student at Ryomyong Primary School in Taesong District, and her mother says:
“I never thought that my daughter has any talent, even when I saw her playing with pencil on paper and walls. However, her kindergarten teachers trained her into talented artist. Seeing the works of my daughter again, I cannot help thinking that all the flower buds come into full bloom on this land under the grateful socialist educational system.”
