One day in July 1947, President Kim Il Sung, on his way to the then Hwanghae Iron Mill, saw a couple of farmer harvesting wheat in the field off the road and let his driver stop his car.
Having talked to her husband, the President turned his eyes to his wife standing behind him and asked her how about farming on equal terms with men in the liberated country.
She replied that she had full sleep and worked to her satisfaction, so she never felt toilsome. The President said to her that the position and role of women was very important in building a new society and they should turn one of the wheels of revolution and then let his attendants take a picture of her.
She was at a loss what to do. Pointing to a sheaf of wheat with all grains ripened, the President let her to have a photo taken with them in her arms and even corrected her posture.
After a few days, her large photograph was in a newspaper on the threshold of the first anniversary of the promulgation of the Law on Gender Equality.