Not everyone in North Korea can enter college freely. To take the university, you must first receive a recommendation.
The university recruitment section of the administrative committee of each road, city, and county recruits children with well-connected components and issues a recommendation document called “University Recommendation Letter”. The letter of recommendation is accompanied by various documents, such as the person’s relatives, career, and physical examination. However, the recommendation sent to the person is merely a form.
The Recruitment Section of the Administrative Committee requests the Resident Registration Section of the Ministry of Social Security to analyze their origin. It sorts from party activists, guards, security guards, and seniors who have the best ancestry to children of foreign deceased who are considered as dangerous molecules.
In this way, central and local universities are individually designated and instructed to go to the relevant university and take the examination.
Within the army, the division’s executive department handles it and goes through the same procedure as above to apply for the entrance examination. (Antetsu Brothers, “North Korea Seen by a Secret Camera”)
Songbun is from home and status.
Whether you can get a college recommendation depends more on your background than on your grades.
They must be of a special class, such as a party or a member of the executive body, or at least from the basic class (workers, peasants). (Kim hyon-hui “as a woman”)
His brother, who had studied well since the people’s school and was a honor student, was elected as the Chairman of Student Affairs (Student Chairman) during his high school and junior high school days, and was awarded by Kim Il Sung.
“Unnie, my school has received a letter of recommendation to the college. It will probably be around me. Some days ago, when my teacher sent me a letter of recommendation, He said, “
However, the letter of recommendation eventually turned to the son of the Nampo City Party Secretary, the mayor. His son, who was in the same class as his brother, performed moderately. (Shin Young-hee “I was the dancer of Kim Jong Il”)
In addition, even if you enter a university, you cannot freely choose what to major.
If so, my mother wanted to be a doctor, but only a good student could say what she wanted to learn.
My university decided to study inorganic chemistry, and my mother learned it. (Park Yong-mi, “The Choice to Live”)
North Korea is a bribe society. North Korean residents are required to pay bribes in every situation, but they also need bribes to earn college credit.
Next, about university life. It is not only elementary, junior and senior high school students who undergo strict inspections when they go to school in the morning. College students are also examined for grooming.
Below is the dormitory of the university.
He was often wrapped with insecticide but had no effect. Female college students wash more than boys. Soap is not available enough, so if you use another person’s soap,
They will be criticized before the masses. If you live in a college dormitory, you’ll steal each other from the house, something you can’t afford, or something like a voucher to eat in the cafeteria. Often things are happening without. This situation is no exception in all regions except Pyongyang. (Jang Ki-hong, “North Korea: ordinary people”)
It is the duty of all North Koreans to read Kim Il Sung’s books, and of course university students are no exception.
Military training begins when you enter high school, but military training also takes place at universities.
In North Korea, junior high school students had to be trained in the “Red Youth Guard”, and colleges were able to graduate with trainer training. The Red Youth Guard only learns the basics of military training, and colleges do full-scale military training. He enrolled at Kim University, and in less than a month, he began training his training corps. After six months of training, you can be a lieutenant when you join the army after graduating from college. (Ibid.)