Students from Kim Hyong Jik University of Education Honoured As International Grandmasters of Memory
Students from Kim Hyong Jik University of Education competed in the World Memory Championships and honored as International Grandmasters of Memory.
The 27th World Memory Championships held in Hong Kong, China in December 2018.
The WMC is one of the biggest mind sports in the world and is called “the world competition between levels of memory training and brains”.
The 27th WMC drew more than 260 competitors from 18 countries and regions, including the DPRK, China, Russia, the US, the UK and France.
Pang Un Sim, Ri Song Mi and Kim Su Rim, girl students from Kim Hyong Jik University of Education, on behalf of the DPRK, competed in the championships.
All the competitors were divided into four groups – kids, junior, adult and senior. They competed in ten disciplines, and they were ranked and awarded medals according to their scores in each event. Their final rankings were decided with a total score.
The DPRK girl competitors won seven gold, seven silver and five bronze medals, and lifted four trophies, setting four news records in the championships. In particular, Pang Un Sim took the first place in the adult group and Ri Song Mi came third in the junior group, both of them titling the International Grandmaster of Memory(IGM).
At the awards ceremony the president of the World Memory Sports Council (WMSC) said that their achievements were unbelievable and surprising.
Foreign competitors, coaches and arbiters hardly repressed their envy and admiration for the three Korean students, who made up only 1.14 percent of all participants and made their international debut but took possession of 15.8 percent of all medals and 44 percent of new world records in the championships.
It was no accident that the DPRK girl students were successful in the WMC.
In the middle school days, they had learned the basic of mnemonics from thankful teachers who found their natural endowments.
At Kim Hyong Jik University of Education, they had been taught advanced memory skills in order to compete with the world and lead it.
Thanks to the socialist education system and their enthusiastic efforts to repay it, the students could be brought up into world famous memory masters.
