The Grand People’s Study House

The Grand People’s Study House is situated near the famous Juche tower on the Kim ill Song Square (the third largest public square in the world), standing atop the gardens of Nam Sun Hill on the bank of the Teadong river in Pyongyang, North Korea. It functions as North Korea‘s Central Library. The Study House contains more than 600 study rooms and lecture halls. It can house 30 million volumes and can accommodate over 12,000 visitors a day.
It lodges computer rooms with rows of computers where you can access North Korea’s own intranet the Kwangmyong, (광명 in Korean).

By 東京のエビフライ at Japanese Wikipedia

By Uwe Brodrecht – 1758 – Nordkorea 2015 – Pjöngjang – Grosser Studienpalast, CC BY-SA 2.0, /commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47778494

By (stephan) – North Korea — Pyongyang, Grand People’s Study House, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56778464

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