Mangyongdae Student Palace
The Mangyongdae Student Palace is a public education and training facility in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang . It is used to keep children busy with activities outside of the school curriculum in the afternoon. These include learning musical instruments and foreign languages, acquiring computer skills and doing sports.
The facility was put into operation on May 2, 1989. It is located on Kwangbok Street , in the north of the Mangyŏngdae-guy Bezk district, right on the ramp to Heroic Youth Street . It is the largest of the numerous facilities in Pyongyang for extracurricular activities with 5400 places for children. The purpose of the facility is to offer the children the opportunity to “develop their talents to their hearts' content”. The cost to build was a hundred million dollars.
On the front of the 5 won note from 1992 there was a motif of the student palace.
architecture
The building, consisting of 50,000 square meters of natural stone and 20,000 square meters of glass, is part of a building complex that was built in 1989 for the World Festival of Youth and Students . With the semicircular wings of the building that enclose a forecourt, the palace forms a floor plan that is supposed to represent the open arms of a mother. It is located on an area of 30 hectares, has six floors, 650 rooms and a floor area of just over 100,000 square meters. The facilities include a theater hall and a swimming pool as well as several gyms and music halls.
The atrium extends over three floors and has 19.50 meter high marble columns.
In front of the building there is a sculpture called "Carriage of Joy". It depicts a chariot with eleven children being pulled by two winged horses. The number of children's figures symbolized the number of years of schooling, which, however , was increased to twelve years at the 6th session of the Supreme People's Assembly .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Philipp Meuser (Ed.): Architectural Guide Pyongyang. Volume 1: Photos and Descriptions. DOM publishers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86922-126-7 , p. 75.
- ^ Mangyongdae Student Palace ( Memento from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) One day: Zeitgeschichten on Spiegel-Online
- ↑ a b c Philipp Meuser (Ed.): Architectural Guide Pyongyang. Volume 2: Background and Comments. DOM publishers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86922-126-7 , p. 60.
- ↑ Students now have 12 years to attend school from September 25, 2012
Coordinates: 39 ° 0 ′ 50.3 " N , 125 ° 39 ′ 31.8" E