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Kye Ung-sang
Kye Ung Sang(계응상,桂應祥, 1893 - 1967) was a North Korean geneticist and expert on silkworms. Biography Kye was born in 1893 to a poor peasant family in Chongju. He studied with the help of his study mates while private tutoring in Seoul and Japan. After graduating from University overseas, he published five theses about the anatomy and physiology and silkworm genetics. In 1930, he published eight theses in Gwangzhou China, where he was a professor of agriculture in a local university. He traveled to Haiphong, Hanoi, Kobe, and Hong Kong, and attempted to do scientific research at the Chaeryong research centre of sericulture, but could not proceed further, as he was limited by Japanese colonial authorities. After liberation, he became a professor at Kim Il-sung University in 1946.He criticized the genetic theories of Trofim Lysenko (which rejected Mendelian genetics and proclaimed a "genetics mixed with genes and environmental factors", that acknowledged inheritance of acqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chongju
Chŏngju (; also Jŏngju) is a ''si'', or city, in southern North P'yŏngan province, North Korea. Prior to 1994, it was designated as a ''kun'' or county. The terrain is mostly level, but mountainous in the north. To the south lies the Chŏngju Plain, where the hills do not rise above . Chŏngju also includes approximately 10 islands in the Yellow Sea. Geography Some 40 percent of Chŏngju is covered by coniferous forestland. Administrative divisions Chŏngju is divided into 14 ''tong'' (neighbourhoods) and 18 '' ri'' (villages): Economy Local agriculture is dominated by orcharding and rice farming; the chestnuts of this region are especially famous. Transportation The city is served by both road and rail; it is the junction point of the P'yŏngŭi and P'yŏngbuk lines of the Korean State Railway. Politics In February 2011, the city and others in North P'yŏngan had rare protests, of a few score of people, calling for adequate provision of rice and power. At the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Prize
The People's Prize ( ko, 인민상) is a North Korean arts and sciences award. It is awarded by the People's Prize Awarding Commission, which is working directly under the Cabinet of North Korea. The prize can be granted to works of art or people. People's Prize has been an important award in the field of North Korean cinema. The works and people that have received the People's Prize cover such varied fields as literature, gymnastics, Korean revolutionary opera, acupuncture and sculpture. The People's Prize has been received by people abroad. History The People's Prize was instituted on 8 September 1958. The first North Korean feature film ''My Hometown'' (1949) was directed by Kang Hongshik. It was the first of a film series to be awarded People's Prize. Kim Il-sung praised many of People's Prize winning movies from 1960s and 1970s of supplying an exhaustive answer to the issue of people's '. The Workers' Party gives the award to those North Korean films and film-makers seen a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Supreme People's Assembly
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Incident Deaths In North Korea
A road is a linear way for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, the main function of roads is transportation. There are many types of roads, including parkways, avenues, controlled-access highways (freeways, motorways, and expressways), tollways, interstates, highways, thoroughfares, and local roads. The primary features of roads include lanes, sidewalks (pavement), roadways (carriageways), medians, shoulders, verges, bike paths (cycle paths), and shared-use paths. Definitions Historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction or some maintenance. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines a road as "a line of communication (travelled way) using a stabilized base other than rails or air strips open to public traffic, primarily for the use of road motor vehicles running on their own wheels", whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suan Gye Clan
Suan Gye clan () is one of the Korean clans. Their Bon-gwan is in Suan County, North Hwanghae Province. According to the research held in 2015, the number of Suan Gye clan’s member was 6056. Their founder was who was from Ming dynasty and was naturalized in Joseon. When he worked as the '' Ministry of Rites'' (, ''Lǐbù''), he was dispatched to teach Li (Confucianism) because of Hongwu Emperor’s order. After was naturalized, he became Prince of Suan and founded Suan Gye clan. See also * Korean clan names of foreign origin References External links * {{Cite book, author=, date=, title=Doosan Encyclopedia 외래귀화성씨 外來歸化姓氏, publisher=Doosan Encyclopedia ''Doosan Encyclopedia'' is a Korean language encyclopedia published by Doosan Donga (두산동아). The encyclopedia is based on the ''Dong-A Color Encyclopedia'' (동아원색세계대백과사전), which comprises 30 volumes and began to be p ..., url=http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Chongju
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones). ** Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'', in the UK. * January 6 – Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch '' Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 14 – The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. * January 15 ** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species '' Kenyapithecus africanus''. ** American football: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. * January 13 ** The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting. ** U.S. Marines from the ''USS Boston'' land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. * January 15 – The ''Telefon Hírmondó'' service starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest. * January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani. * January 21 ** The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa. ** The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Korean Scientists
North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is related to the Old High German ''nord'', both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *''ner-'', meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word ''borealis'' comes from the Greek '' boreas'' "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was personified as the wind-god Boreas, the father of Calais and Zetes. ''Septentrionalis'' is from ''septentriones'', "the seven plow oxen", a name of ''Ursa Major''. The Greek ἀρκτικός (''arktikós'') is named for the same constellation, and is the source of the English word ''Arctic''. Other languages have other derivations. For example, in Lezgian, ''kefer'' can mean b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kye Ung-sang University
Kye Ung-sang University ()also known as Kye Ung-sang Sariwon University of Agriculture () is a university in Sariwon, North Korea. History The university was initially founded as the Sariwon University of Agriculture on September 1, 1959. The university changed its name to its current name in 1990, after the North Korean geneticist Kye Ung-sang Kye Ung Sang(계응상,桂應祥, 1893 - 1967) was a North Korean geneticist and expert on silkworms. Biography Kye was born in 1893 to a poor peasant family in Chongju. He studied with the help of his study mates while private tutoring in Seoul ..., an expert in silkworms. In May 2010, the university along with Pyongyang Medical College, and Pyongyang Agricultural College were made into elements of the Kim Il Sung University Council, however, those three institutions seceded were later removed in October 2019. Works During the 60th anniversary of its founding,a reporting event of its scientific technological achievements in the nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery
The Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery is a national cemetery in North Korea located in Sinmi-ri, Hyongjesan-guyok, Pyongyang. Founded on September 17, 1986, it is officially reserved for people who contributed to the "liberation of the country" and "socialist construction". Buried here are many veterans of the Korean independence movement, army and national officials, and outstanding citizens in the fields of science, medicine, and literature. Burials Among those interred here are: A * An Woo Saeng (안우생/; 1907–1991), poet and activist. C * Cho Ki-chon (조기천/; 1913–1951), poet * Cho So-ang (조소앙/; 1887–1958), independence activist * Cho Wan-gu (조완구/; 1881–1952), independence activist * Choe Deok-sin (최덕신/; 1914–1989), politician *Choe Pong Man, contributed to development of Workers' Party of Korea while in the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. * Choi Hong Hi (최홍희/; 1918–2002), general and deportist * Choe Tong-oh (최 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero Of Labor (North Korea)
Labor Hero () is one of the highest titles of honor of North Korea and the highest decoration of the country overall. The award was probably scheduled for establishment in the summer of 1950, but the Korean War postponed these plans. When the war had entered a phase of stalemate along the 38th parallel, the government had time to officially launch the decoration, originally under the name Korea Hero of Labor. 16 people were decorated Labor Heroes during the war and more since then. The decoration is based on its Soviet equivalent, Hero of Socialist Labour Specifications Hero of Labor is the highest title of honor of North Korea. It is also the highest decoration of the country overall. Immediately below it are the Order of Kim Il-sung and Kim Il-sung Prizes. Along with the title a gold medal is awarded. The medal features the hammer and sickle on a five-pointed star. It is awarded independently of the similar award of Order of Labor. History Hero of Labor was probably ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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