Ri Tong Chan, director of the Central Industrial Art Guidance Bureau, told KCNA:

It is thanks to the wise guidance of leader Kim Jong Il that the State Industrial Art Centre could be built.

In March Juche 99 (2010), Kim Jong Il had the Central Industrial Art Guidance Bureau formed to give unified guidance over the nation's industrial art, and took a measure to build the centre with the mobilization of soldiers.

The construction of the centre was completed with the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung (April 15) just ahead.

The centre houses the Korean Industrial Art Studio, Korean Industrial Art Information Exchange Agency and the Central Industrial Art Guidance Bureau, as well as an exhibition on the first and second floors, a 300-seat hall and an underground parking lot.

On display at the exhibition are materials and data featuring the undying feats Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and an anti-Japanese war hero, Kim Jong Suk, performed for the development of Juche-based industrial art.

Also exhibited are a variety of industrial designs and products presented by artists and teachers and students at Pyongyang University of Fine Arts and other educational institutions as well as amateur artists.

Conspicuous among them are designs of footwear, packing, tools and vehicles.

In April this year, the dear respected Kim Jong Un visited the national industrial art exhibition, opened at the center to mark Kim Il Sung's 100th birth anniversary, and gave important instructions for developing the industrial art.