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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 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 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 is a Korean mythological horse. Chollima may also refer to: Chollima (magazine), a North Korean art magazine; Chollima (website), a North Korean website; Chollima Movement, a state-sponsored movement in North Korea to promote rapid economic development; Chollima-1, a North Korean orbital satellite carrier rocket operated by North Korea ...
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 ]
North Korea appears to be preparing for its third attempt this year at launching a reconnaissance satellite, a move that may prove as controversial as the nuclear-armed country's weapons tests.
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 ...
In North Korea the Chollima Movement, a campaign aimed at improving labour productivity along the lines of the earlier Soviet Stakhanovite movement, gets its name from the word "chollima" which refers to a thousand-ri horse (chŏn + ri + ma in North Korean Romanization).