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The winged horse is said to be too swift and elegant to be mounted by any mortal man and is named after its ability to travel one thousand li in a single day. Since the 3rd century BCE, the qianlima was used as a metaphor for exceptionally talented people and animals, such as Red Hare .
The Chollima Movement was the first of many mass mobilization campaigns in North Korea, and probably the most famous one. [15] Chollima has since become an icon of North Korea. Several statues of the winged horse have been constructed throughout the country. Most significant is the 46-meter high Chollima Statue on Mansu Hill , Pyongyang. This ...
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.
The national emblem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea bears the design of a grand hydroelectric power station under Mt. Paektu, the sacred mountain of the revolution, and the beaming light of a five-pointed red star, with ears of rice forming an oval frame, bound with a red ribbon bearing the inscription "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea."
Pegasus, as the winged horse of Muses, on the roof of Poznań Opera House (Max Littmann, 1910) A winged horse, flying horse, or pterippus is a kind of mythical creature, mostly depicted as a horse with the wings of a bird. Winged horses appear in the mythologies of various cultures, including Greek mythology.
Cheonma (missile) (K-SAM Pegasus), a South Korean surface-to-air missile name for the Korean winged-horse cheonma (천마/天馬) 7th Airborne Special Forces Brigade "Pegasus" (Korean: 7공수특전여단 "천마" , romanized: 7 Gongsuteugjeon-Yeodan "Cheonma" ), South Korean Army; see List of paratrooper forces
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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 ...