List of things named after Kim Il-sung

List

Education and research

• Kim Il-sung College for Physics – located in Pochon County, Ryanggang Province and named to commemorate the 1937 Battle of Pochonbo
• Kim Il-sung Military University – school for selected commissioned officers.
• Kim Il-sung University – called that since it opened in 1946
• Kim Il-sung University of Politics
• Kim Il-sung Higher Party School – the country's top school for the selected few
• Kim Il-sung Research Institute of Agricultural Science – in Guinea
• "Kim Il-sung Research Institute" – generic name for classrooms in large elementary schools dedicated to studying Kim Il-sung
• Research Center for Comrade Kim Il-sung's Revolutionary Thoughts – formerly the Research Center for Workers' Party of Korea History
• Kim Il-sung Library – in Mogadishu, Somalia
• Kim Il-sung Library – in Sofia, Bulgaria

  Museums

• South Hamgyong Museum of the Revolutionary Activities of Comrade Kim Il-sung – in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province
• Sinuiju Museum of the Revolutionary Activities of Comrade Kim Il-sung – in Sinuiju, North Pyongan Province
• South Pyongan Museum of the Revolutionary Activities of Comrade Kim Il-sung – in Pyongsong, South Pyongan Province
• Kim Il-sung Revolutionary Museum – in Chongjin
• Chagang Provincial Comrade Kim Il-sung Revolutionary Museum – in Chagang Province
• Museum of President Kim Il-sung's Revolutionary Activities – in Wonsan, Kangwon Province
• Museum of President Kim Il-sung's Revolutionary Activities – in Ryanggang Province

  Streets, squares and parks

• Several streets in foreign countries. North Korea claims 450 in 100 countries. There is a "Kim Il-sung Street" or equivalent in:
• *Hamhung, North Korea
• *Maputo, Mozambique
• *Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• *Damascus, Syria
• Kim Il-sung Square, Pyongyang, North Korea
• Kim Il-sung Park in Damascus, Syria. Inaugurated in 2015.

  Awards

• Kim Il-sung Award
• Kim Il-sung Medal
• Kim Il-sung Prize
• International Kim Il-sung Prize
• Order of Kim Il-sung
• Kim Il-sung Youth Honor Prize
• Kim Il-sung Children Honor Prize

  Other

• Kimilsungia – an orchid presented to Kim Il-sung by Indonesia's leader Sukarno in 1965 and named after Kim when introduced to North Korea in 1977
• Kim Il-sung Stadium – formerly Pyongyang Municipal Stadium
• Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth League – named by Kim Jong-il in 1996 after Kim Il-sung's death two years earlier, subsequently renamed Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth League
• "Kimilsungism" – The Juche idea was officially named "Kimilsungism" in 1974
• "Song of General Kim Il-sung" – composed by Kim Won-gyun in 1946, its lyrics are carved in stones across the country
• "Kim Il-sung Constitution" – name of the 1998 constitution, that made Kim Il-sung the Eternal President of the country after his death

  Named after the Sun

• Day of the Sun – designated in 1997 after a three-year mourning period following the death of Kim Il-sung
• Kumsusan Palace of the Sun

  Proposed namings

• "Kim Il-sung City" – proposed name for Pyongyang after Kim Il-sung's death. Another proposal was to name Pyongyang "Kim Jong-il City" and name Seoul "Kim Il-sung City" once reunification would be attained.

  Works cited