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North Korean students may have gone on vacation as scheduled, but Daily NK has learned that rather than resting, students are instead being mobilized to carry out flood relief or to lend a hand in agricultural villages.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to multiple Daily NK sources in North Korea on Friday, North Korean elementary school students went on vacation at the beginning of the month, while middle, high school and university students started their vacation in the middle of the month.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, authorities are enlisting vacationing students for labor in places in North and South Hamgyong provinces, which were battered by recent torrential rains.<\/span><\/p>\n

A source in North Hamgyong Province said the authorities were mobilizing \u201cfifth-graders and above\u201d for recovery efforts. He said since schools are being paid according to the \u201cresults\u201d of their labor, students \u201chave to work morning to afternoon to carry out their daily work tasks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Once each school is tasked with recovery efforts in a particular area, the school splits up that area between each grade, class and academic department and assigns students daily tasks. They assign work each age group can handle; usually, this means students are filling up basins or buckets with mud, or moving rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The source said in some rain stricken areas, students mobilized for recovery efforts even spent three straight days working from 5 AM to 1 AM the next day.<\/span><\/p>\n

In areas that suffered no real damage, students are reportedly lending a hand in efforts to prevent damage in agricultural villages.<\/span><\/p>\n

A source in Pyongyang said students are heading to nearby farms to erect stoneworks and levies, harden the ground and build waterways. \u201cLast year, students were hardly mobilized during the summer vacation. They were busy with their incomplete school work,\u201d he said. \u201cThis year, anyway, the school work is all finished, so it appears students will be mobilized throughout the vacation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To be excluded from work, students must submit a certificate or doctor\u2019s note saying they need medical testing and pay a bit of money. Otherwise, the students need to pay a lot of money in the form of \u201cvoluntary\u201d donations to the effort.<\/span><\/p>\n

The source said such donations have no upper limit, \u201cjust minimum ones, at least KPW 100,000.\u201d According to him, \u201cOnly those doing well can afford that kind of money. Those that can\u2019t must pay it with the labor of their children, without complaint.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Students at North Korea\u2019s Pyongyang Elementary School take computer lessons. \/ Image: Ryukyung<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This being the case, students are reportedly reducing their sleeping hours to do their vacation homework at night.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cVacation homework is something mandatory for the students, so those mobilized for work during the week are doing their homework in the lamplight at night,\u201d said another source in North Hamgyong Province. \u201cSo they can\u2019t even think about helping out on their parents\u2019 small fields. But some kids spend all night doing homework while they stand guard with their parents in lookout huts to help protect their corn fields.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf parents get caught lying that their kids are sick and not sending them to work because they are short on hands at home, those children will be criticized during their class vacation reviews,\u201d said the source. \u201cUltimately, parents end up having to spend all night farming. So among parents, there\u2019s grumbling about these labor mobilizations that repeat every year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Criticism is reportedly emerging that with the authorities failing to supply cement and other supplies needed to prevent damages, preventative efforts amount to patchwork, leading to continuous damage with levies breaking and fields flooding in monsoon rains, torrential downpours and floods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, parents are complaining that \u201cthey wouldn\u2019t have to call out kids and other people\u201d if the state would take proper preventative measures \u201cfrom the very beginning\u201d by providing \u201ceven a bit of cement,\u201d and that it is a waste to keep doing the same thing every time there is a problem \u201ceven though levies will ultimately collapse when you build them using raw stones without cement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, according to a source in Pyongyang, Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University of Technology have not sent students hailing from areas outside of the capital city back to their hometowns during the summer vacation because they have yet to complete their coursework.<\/span><\/p>\n

Accordingly, the students remaining in Pyongyang are doing independent study in the mornings to complete their coursework and submitting work related to their independent study in the afternoons.<\/span><\/p>\n

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