According to Jong Myong Ok, manager of the Pyongyang Department Store No. 1, most of its customers have demanded domestic products rather than imported ones as they are cheap and better in quality. Those products include foodstuffs, cosmetics, medicines and garments.

Hong Yong Jun, a staff at the Kyonghung Guidance Bureau, said that the output of foodstuffs at factories under the bureau has drastically increased, with their quality remarkably improved.

In recent years a large number of light industrial establishments in the country have striven to raise the quality and competitive power of their products through a brisk modernization drive.