Tag: students

As North Korean schools prepare for the new academic year, a significant change in uniform distribution has created additional burdens for teachers across elementary,...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has promoted educational activities as the "No. 1 affair of state" and emphasized state support, but the burden...

As graduation day approaches, North Korean students are busily preparing gifts for their homeroom teachers. While the custom of giving graduation presents has taken...

A Kim Il Sung University graduate has surprised his friends by prioritizing career prospects over his long-term romantic relationship, Daily NK has learned. "University students...

Three teenage children of North Korean army security officers were sentenced to unpaid labor for "nonsocialist behavior" earlier this month. "Investigators from the General Political...

North Korea's premier party institution, the Pyongyang Central Cadres Training School, recently conducted a seminar focused on implementing Kim Jong Un's latest political theories...

North Korea's recent initiative to boost technical education through a pilot program at select middle and high schools has hit an obstacle: most schools...

A professor at Hamhung University of Pharmacology was arrested in December for manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine, with investigators discovering he had used students to...

North Korea's University of Technology of Songrim conducted a campus-wide review last month of violations against the country's anti-reactionary thought law, Daily NK has...

North Korean university students are spending their month-long vacation hauling manure to farms. While authorities tout this as a "manifestation of patriotism," students have...