Dec. 23, 2024 Monday  
Rodong Sinmun
First Day of Sports Observed in DPRK

Culture 2024.1.16.



All the people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea conducted diverse mass sports activities on the first day of sports in the New Year, Juche 113 (2024).

There took place group running and Taekwon-Do demonstration of officials of commissions, ministries and national institutions at Kim Il Sung Square.

Colorful sports games took place at different units in Pyongyang.

Universities and schools at all levels hosted various sports events, folk games and amusement games.

Working people across the country also held diverse sports games on the occasion of the first day of sports in the new year.

The mass sports activities conducted in different parts of the country on the occasion of the first day of sports this year fully demonstrated the validity and vitality of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s policy on sports and encouraged the Korean people full of the enthusiasm to confidently usher in a new era of the overall development of Korean-style socialism and national prosperity.

Rodong Sinmun