The following happened in mid-September 1960 when President Kim Il Sung visited Chongsan-ri.

   Farmers were full of excitement as they sat around him under a weeping willow tree. One of them asked him to ensure that they take home only the amount enough for their one-year food and sell the rest to the state.

   Then Kim Il Sung asked them how much cereals would be needed for a person a year.

   Another farmer said five or six straw bags of rice would be enough per person, young or old.

   Kim Il Sung said: 300kg? It would not be sufficient, I think. Suppose a son of a family returns home after discharge from military service, or a daughter working in a factory comes home on vacation or a married daughter visits her native home. Would parents ask their children to bring their supplied rice?

   The farmers burst into a roar of laughter.

   Kim Il Sung, too, laughed together with them. After a while, he said: Koreans had a custom of buying liquor to treat their daughter’s father-in-law with the money they made by selling rice in case they encounter him in the market. In case he pays a visit to your house once in a year, you have to lavish hospitality to the guest. I think it would be advisable to leave at least 400kg in a year for a person, young or old.

   Accordingly, the farmers received their shares that year in consideration of visits by both their children and their relatives by marriage.

   The numbers of 300kg and 400kg were not just numerical figures.

   All agricultural workers not only in Chongsan-ri but in other parts of the country were firmly resolved to repay with increased production of rice the great favour of the President who paid attention even to sustaining the folk custom.