In the DPRK the children are called "king" of the country and the government spares nothing for them.

President Kim Il Sung, who had paid a close attention from the early years of his revolutionary activities to raising and educating the younger generation regarding it as an issue decisive of the future of the revolution, proposed the building of a children's palace on a hill in downtown Pyongyang after the liberation of the country.

He believed that though palaces had been dedicated to kings in the past, such buildings should be built for the rising generation in liberated Korea and that the prosperity of the nation depends on the education of the children.

During the Korean war the palace was destroyed badly due to indiscriminate bombing of the U.S. imperialists. But in the postwar period when the country was undergoing severe difficulties it was reconstructed over ten times larger than the previous one, named Pyongyang Students and Children's Palace.

Thanks to his noble view on the coming generation, many schoolchildren's palaces have been built throughout the country. Among them are the Kim Song Ju Schoolchildren's Palace, February 16 Schoolchildren's Palace, Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace, "1,000-ri Journey for National Liberation" Schoolchildren's Palace, Samjiyon Schoolchildren's Palace and Kaesong Schoolchildren's Palace.

Girls and boys are fully cultivating their talent at the palaces, growing to be pillars of socialist Korea.