It happened when President Kim Il Sung visited the then Songjin City for the first time since national liberation.
The President, on his way to inspecting the city in company with administrative personnel of the city, pointed at a building which stood conspicuously in the seaside and asked what that building was.
The President was told that it was the ecclesiastical club where the Japanese Governor used to stop at but usually had been a pleasure resort for Japanese officials and business giants. He said that our workers had been atrociously exploited and oppressed by Japanese imperialist aggressors and the society had finished forever where the Japs built pleasure resorts like the ecclesiastical club in scenic places for their dissolute lives and swaggered about as they pleased.
The President said that the “Governor” was the people in our country as it had been liberated and the people became the masters of it and that our workers who had been more maltreated and disdained should be the “Governor”. And then, he let the building to be used as the sanatorium for Songjin Steel Mill workers.
