"Jiwon" represents the revolutionary view of life that man should find pride and happiness in the efforts for the country and the nation.

This idea of "Jiwon" was advanced by Kim Hyong Jik, outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea, who was born into a poor peasant family in Mangyongdae on July 10, 1894.

Regarding the idea as his lifelong motto, he had conducted the education in patriotism among the broad sections of people and encouraged them to the anti-Japanese struggle.

On March 23, Juche 6 (1917) he formed the Korean National Association, an anti-Japanese underground revolutionary organization largest-ever in scale and most steadfast in the stand for independence against imperialism at that time.

On the basis of analysis into the changed situation at home and abroad and the lesson taught by the March First Popular Uprising, he convened the Chongsudong Meeting and the Kuandian Meeting to set forth a policy of changing the course of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea from the nationalist movement to the proletarian revolution.

He had worked heart and soul only for the independence of the country from the start of his revolutionary activity to the last moments of his life.

Indeed, his was the glorious life of a great pioneer who dedicated himself to exploring the road of national liberation with the idea of "Jiwon".

Kim Hyong Jik trained the members of the Mangyongdae family to be great revolutionaries and patriots and led young Kim Il Sung, his son, to the road of the revolution. He left the idea of "Jiwon", the idea on preparedness for three contingencies and gaining comrades and two pistols to the son as a valuable legacy.

His great feats are still kept in the mind of the Korean people.