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Devoted Efforts to Provide People with the Condition for Leisure Time on Sunday

 2025.10.1.

There are 365 days in a year and everybody looks forward to a day at the weekend.

It is Sunday, often called the "Red-letter Day", when people are so excited with joy and happiness.

Parks and pleasure grounds, gymnasiums, theatres, cinemas, cultural and sanitary service facilities and public catering networks always please visitors.

It warms our hearts that the working people are having a great time on Sundays at service facilities for the cultural and emotional life where they can enjoy themselves to their hearts' contents under the warm care of the Party.

It is advisable for people to know how they can enjoy themselves on Sundays and what makes them happy and pleased.

Chairman Kim Jong Il said:

"Our Party exists for the people and fights for their interests."

Looking back upon the days, we are deeply impressed with the noble love of Chairman Kim Jong Il for the people that is even associated with their Sunday's leisure time.

It was one day in December, 2007.

Reviewing the year full of the proud victory with the officials, the Chairman gave them the precious instructions related to people's leisure time on Sunday.

The officials were moved while looking up to the benevolent Chairman who was giving so detailed instructions to them how to lead a cultural and emotional life and educate the children on Sundays.

Because their hearts were touched by the noble intention of the Chairman to carry on the love of President Kim Il Sung for the people generation after generation, who devoted his whole life to providing them with enjoyable Sundays and furthermore, the days and months of happiness.

One day in April, 2008, he told the senior officials from the Central Committee of the WPK that nobody lives without feelings and emotion and is indifferent to his life, and that optimism is not born in the air but in the rich cultural and emotional life. He added that officials and other working people should have a leisure time on Sundays to organize a diverse cultural and emotional life with their families at theatres, cinemas, botanical gardens, zoos and other service facilities so that the whole society can be vibrant with a militant spirit and optimism.

It was the guideline to make the officials reconsider what an important day Sunday was in raising the cultural and emotional attainments of the working people, establishing a harmonious and sound way of life in their families and society and training their children to be excellent people of the Juche era with lofty and rich emotions.

That was why he worked heart and soul at every opportunity to make the people spend Sundays more pleasantly and meaningfully.

But there was no rest for him who had spent the days and months with his devotion to the country, revolution and people, carrying heavy loads on his own shoulder.

Working people enjoying Sunday at public service centres
Photo. Working people enjoying Sunday at public service centres provided under the warm care of the Party

Korean people will hand down to posterity the fact that they enjoy happy lives from day to day, thanks to the painstaking efforts of the Chairman who put off even the short leisure time on Sunday for the sake of people.