Culture 2024.9.9.

Korean-style Roofing

Our people’s wisdom is also reflected in their distinguished architecture.

Typical of them is the Korean-style roofing, a national intangible cultural heritage.

The Korean-style roofing has roof formation methods and shapes that have been refined and consolidated for a long time to suit the aesthetic tastes of the Korean nation.

The Korean-style roofs, which are divided into garble roof, hipped roof, hip-saddle roof, etc. according to its form, have elegant and beautiful curves.

For instance, Pohyon Temple, a historical relic in Mt Myohyang, shows excellent architectural skills and excellent artistic skills.

And Taeung Hall, the biggest and most splendid building in the Pohyon Temple, is well balanced by a hip-saddle roof which forms a soft curve with the wall.

Our ancestors built a roof and pillar with unique and light curves and curved surfaces in the architectural structure and decorated them with soft, gentle and bright colours.

Under the wise leadership of the Party, the formative depiction of elegant Korean-style roof, the national architectural form, has developed continuously, making it possible to express well the optimistic life feelings and resourceful spirit of our people symbolically. The Korean-style roofing has been widely applied to grand monumental edifices such as the Grand People’s Study House and the People’s Palace of Culture.

Korean Painting’s Various Art of Drawing  

The Korean painting is a traditional artistic form peculiar to our nation which has developed through long period.

The Korean painting has several characteristic techniques including composition technique and single stroke technique.

The artistic characteristic of the Korean painting composition technique is to give strong formative beauty and sense for the real without depicting perspective relation among various objects one by one respectively.

The Korean painting has developed continuously under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea and its typical work is "Evening Glow of Kangson".

The Korean painting adds an important page to the development of Juche-based fine art thanks to its superiority.

Twelve Sticks of Farm Music 

The twelve sticks of farm music is a rhythm system played by percussion instruments such as small gong, gong, janggu and drum. The stick in farm music means rhythm.

During the play of farm music the stick is divided into number of gong’s beat: when the gong beats once, it calls one stick; when the gong beats twice, it calls two sticks.

The stick rhythms are based on the national musical rhythms peculiar to our nation such as tunes for an exorcism, Yangsando tune, tune of Korean folk-songs, etc.

The twelve sticks of farm music has been discovered and arranged thanks to the wise policy of our Party on literature and art and actively contributes to applying the Juche character and national character to the national music.

Rodong Sinmun

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