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The chollima is an important symbol in North Korea. It is used as the nickname of its national association football team. The state also gave the name to the Chollima Movement, which promoted fast economic development, similar to that of the Chinese Great Leap Forward and the Soviet Stakhanovite movement.
The Chollima Movement (Korean: 천리마 운동; Hancha: 千里馬運動) was a state-sponsored Stakhanovite movement in North Korea intended to promote rapid economic development. Launched in 1956 or 1958, [ 1 ] the movement emphasized "ideological incentives to work harder" and the personal guidance of Kim Il Sung rather than rational modes ...
The Chollima (Korean: 천리마; Hancha: 千里馬) is a monthly educational magazine of North Korea. [1] It was first published in January 1959, [3] initially to support the Chollima Movement. The publisher is the Chollima Editing Committee of the Art and Literature Publishing House (문학예술종합출판사). Unlike most other magazines in ...
The Chollima Statue (Korean: 천리마동상) is a monument on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The monument symbolizes the "Chollima speed" of the Chollima Movement . The legendary winged horse Chollima depicted by the monument is said to travel 1,000 ri (400 km) a day.
Chollima (Korean: 천리마) was a North Korean website providing news and information about economic policies and foreign trade. The website contained North Korea's first online shop, believed to have opened on 31 December 2007, which had a broad range of product categories including machinery, building materials, automobiles, health foods, music and films.
The Chollima-321 (Korean: 천리마-321) is a North Korean trolleybus with battery power built by the Pyongyang Trolley Bus Factory. [1] The name 'Chollima' refers to a myth about a winged horse that has since been adopted as the name of North Korea's Stakhanovite movement . [ 2 ]
Malligyong-1 (Korean: 《만리경-1》호; Hanja: 萬里鏡 1号, meaning Telescope-1) is a type of North Korean reconnaissance satellite. [2] It is North Korea's first spy satellite. [3] It is in a sun-synchronous orbit at about 500 kilometres (310 mi) altitude, [4] and will provide a global optical imaging surveillance capability of several ...
The Ch'ŏnma (Chosŏn'gŭl: 천마; Hanja: 天馬 meaning 'Pegasus'), often inaccurately referred to as Chonma-Ho, is one of North Korea's secretive indigenous main battle tank designs. The tank is also known by the name of 천리마 전차 (千里馬 or the "Chollima Tank") [citation needed]. The Ch'ŏnma is based on the Soviet T-62. There are ...