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Fitness Center in Pyongyang Daily Crowded with Citizens
Pyongyang, October 15 (KCNA) -- The Fitness Center in Thongil Street, Pyongyang, is visited by at least 1 000 schoolchildren and working citizens every day.

The center has various kinds of latest exercise and treatment apparatuses, and especially exercise apparatus for running is very popular among its visitors.

Kim Yong Sil, a worker of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang Textile Mill, told KCNA that she loves this apparatus as it can control momentum according to physical constitution.

A woman using the cycling apparatus said with joy that it is helpful to making a good figure and treating lumbar and leg pains.

Cha Kwang Ok, a researcher of the health recovery room at the center, said that many women frequent the center to get facial treatment and massage.

Kang Jong Suk, chief of the service section at the center, said that more than 200,000 citizens visited the center in one year after the start of its operation on October 16, 2012. All of them were unanimous in saying the center gives freshness and strength, she added.

Such mass sports and cultural facilities as the fitness center have been taking their shapes one after another in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to provide the people with better living conditions.

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