The factory, which was inaugurated last year, produces tens of kinds of national musical instruments including Okryugum, Oungum, Kayagum, Tanso, flute and Janggu.

It has several workshops equipped with home-made modern facilities. And high-skilled workers and competent musical experts are engaged in the production of traditional musical instruments.

At the factory, there is also an exhibition hall showing the musical instrument heritages made by ancestors and improved instruments of the modern times.

Yun Jong Chol, chief engineer of the factory, told KCNA:

The factory has produced modernly-improved national musical instruments.

Under the energetic guidance of Chairman Kim Jong Il, a work was launched in the country to improve the national musical instruments in accordance with the developing era and our people's cultural and emotional demand at the end of the 1960s.

As the shape and quality of instruments were improved according to the scientific and technological requirement, those improved instruments are better than the previous ones in aspects of tone quality and sound volume.