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Kangryong Grasswork Popular in DPRK
Pyongyang, October 24 (KCNA) -- Various kinds of goods, produced by the Kangryong Grasswork Factory in South Hwanghae Province of the DPRK, are winning popularity among citizens.

The factory turns out scores of kinds of grasswork with sedge and other locally available materials. Typical of its products are hat, basket and cushion.

In recent years it has increased the variety of sedge products, including bags, mats and wall hangings depicting pine tree, tiger and crane.

Supreme leader Kim Jong Un recognized a sedge carpet, one of its products, in August when he visited the Pyongyang Home for the Aged.

O Son Gum, manager of the factory, told KCNA that the factory has striven to steadily improve its products so as to suit the consumers' aesthetic taste.

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