Foreign People Enjoying Good Fortune
in Korea (1)

Under the beneficial socialist healthcare system of Korea where human lives are deemed supreme, not only Koreans but many people from abroad get blessings.

Saebyol, a symbol of friendship

Raul Garcia Albarez, a Cuban linguist, came to Korea with his lady in June 1988 and worked for two years. They had a worry in their life. It was that they had no child in their eight years of married life owing to the lady’s habitual abortion. Then, in 1990 when their term of stay was coming to an end, the lady became pregnant and entered the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital. They had to leave Korea in three months, and they felt worried for fear of another abortion.

When this was reported to Chairman Kim Jong Il, he took steps to prolong their stay for the lady to be delivered of a baby safely in the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital and have them accorded the same treatment as before until they would leave for home.

A boy was born in November that year. With a deep sense of gratitude, they wrote a letter of thanks to the Chairman, in which they asked him to give a name to their baby. After reading the letter, Kim Jong Il said that Saebyol (Morning Star) would be a good name for their boy, for the star could be seen everywhere. With this, he sent suit materials, baby clothes, quilting cloth, condensed milk and so on as gifts to Saebyol. Saebyol’s mother who received her baby’s name and gifts said, “I cannot find words to express all my joy and good fortune. I’ll bring up my son Saebyol so named by the great Chairman Kim Jong Il as a symbol of Cuba-Korea friendship.”