One Sunday in November Juche 49 (1960), President Kim Il Sung looked round several factories and shops in the capital city of Pyongyang to learn in detail about the supply of bean curd to the citizens, putting off his rest.

   Noting that bean curd is one of the traditional foods favoured by the Koreans, he said to the accompanying officials that he would be very glad if a piece of bean curd is supplied to a citizen a day in the future.

   Bean curd was recorded in Mogunjip, Yangchonjip and other historical documents in the closing years of the Koryo dynasty, but its origin is believed to be much earlier.

   In those days Koreans made tens of kinds of bean curd, including uncurdled, curdled, coarse and soft ones.

  During his visit to the Ryongbuk Foodstuff Factory that day, Kim Il Sung took measures to supply delicious bean curd to the people and specified the ways to this end, saying that there was nothing mysterious about making bean curd as the ancestors had made it with a stone hand mill.

   According to his instructions, officials went to a bean curd factory and succeeded in making a new kind of quality bean curd in over 20 days.

   Looking at the bean curd, Kim Il Sung said: It is my earnest desire to provide the people sufficiently with warm bean curd all year round. You have made me very happy today. The jelly-like bean curd looks very delicious.

   Thanks to his loving care, bean curd is always available to enrich the diet of the people.