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The people\u2019s committee of North Hamgyong Province has criticized local cultural and recreational facilities as hotbeds of non-socialist behavior and has begun drawing up measures to address them, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that the provincial people\u2019s committee \u201cconvened a meeting on Apr. 20 to discuss measures to deal with the transformation of local cultural and recreational facilities intended to improve the cultural lives of the people into bad facilities where non-socialist behavior predominates.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the source, the meeting in question criticized how new bowling alleys, hotels, department stores, inns and restaurants \u2014 mostly in the city of Chongjin \u2014 host non-socialist behavior that is completely at odds with the founding mission of improving the people\u2019s cultural lives and convenience.<\/span><\/p>\n

The provincial people\u2019s committee said the state ordered the operation of bowling alleys, hotels, department stores, inns and restaurants to provide the people with cultural and recreational facilities to make their lives happier. However, behavior at odds with this intention was taking place, it said, with individuals and agencies using the facilities to fill their pockets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe meeting chastised the officials managing the facilities, saying minors engage in widespread unhealthy behavior at accommodation facilities like inns and hotels and young people unreservedly gamble by putting money on games at bowling alleys, but the officials were simply making money by turning a blind eye,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response to the problem, the provincial people\u2019s committee \u2014 criticizing how capitalist lifestyles were infiltrating local cultural and recreational facilities \u2014 decided to strictly manage the facilities per state directions and bolster supervision of the businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, officials managing and operating cultural and recreational facilities now must undergo continuous inspections to ensure they are operating the facilities to improve the people\u2019s welfare per their original mission.<\/span><\/p>\n

The provincial people\u2019s committee plans to teach provincial residents, especially students and young people, how to use cultural and recreational facilities properly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe meeting was held to prevent social and cultural regression resulting from the misuse of cultural and recreational facilities intended to promote the cultural and recreational development of the people,\u201d the source said. \u201cThe meeting beseeched all relevant agencies and individuals to perform their responsibilities and roles fully.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Translated by David Carruth. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Please send any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n

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