When you enter the Okryu Children’s Hospital, you can feel at a glance that it is the hospital totally for the children. Pictures drawn on the wall of corridor and ward suited to the children’s mind, it is redolent of fairyland not a hospital. They say that over 1 700 fairy tale pictures are drawn in the hospital. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un looked round the construction site of the hospital nearing completion and gave instructions to fill the walls of passage and sick-room with fairy tale pictures loved by the children. He chose world-famous fairy tale pictures including Cinderella and the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which have been well-known to the children and sent them to the hospital. Numerous artists including students of the Pyongyang University of Fine Arts created 1 700 works of arts within a week. Thus, the walls of hospital were bedecked finely with pictures in a way best suited to the children’s feelings. The pictures were not merely the one to decorate the wall. Those are silent teacher and textbook teaching the essence and principles of things and phenomena with attraction. The Okryu Children’s Hospital serves as a space for medical treatment but also has been decorated as the place for education. Magnificent fairyland drawn in the hospital; This is a manifestation of warm love shown by Kim Jong Un who puts forward children as king of the country.
Front view of Okryu Children’s Hospital
Cat and mickey mouse
Good friends (raccoon dog, cat and bear)
Cinderella
Snow White and the seven Dwarfs
Rabbit and tortoise
Pictures for children’s study
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