On this occasion, diverse sports and amusement games are held at institutions, industrial establishments, farms and schools across the country.

The Day of Physical Culture was instituted 70 years ago under the deep care of President Kim Il Sung, who put forward the physical culture as an important issue decisive of the destiny of the country and opened up a new history of its development for the people on this land.

In a speech "For the Development of Physical Culture and Sports on a Mass Scale" delivered in October Juche 35 (1946), the President stressed that the physical culture in new Korea should be developed into a nation-wide one conducive to the state building. And he took a step to establish a system for examination of people's physical strength in July 1948.

At a DPRK Cabinet meeting on August 2, 1949, he called for setting second Sunday of every October as the day of physical culture. On October 30 that year, he attended a national sports games marking Day of Physical Culture to encourage its participants.

Since then, the Korean people have conducted mass sports activities on Day of Physical Culture every year.