Ch'ŏllima

Ch'ŏllima is a being from Korean mythology . It is a winged horse that made 1000 ri jumps.

Meaning in North Korea

In North Korea , Ch'ŏllima became a symbol of reconstruction and industrialization after the Korean War . It was there in the 1960s that the Ch' denllima movement came into being, which, in a sense, represented a North Korean counterpart to the great leap forward of the People's Republic of China . The magazine Ch'ŏllima first appeared in early 1959 . In Pyongyang , a 46-meter-high Ch'ŏllima statue was inaugurated on April 15, 1961 on the occasion of Kim Il-sung's 49th birthday ; the first line of the Pyongyang metro is named after Ch'ŏllima, as is Chollima Street or the Ch'ŏllima-90 and Ch'ŏllima-091 vehicles . At the end of the 1950s there was also a motorcycle brand "Ch'ŏllima".

Until the shutdown in mid-2010, there was a website called Ch'ŏllima on the North Korean intranet .

The Ch'ŏllima steel mills are the largest steel mill in North Korea.