천리마시대 노동영웅 이미지의 기원과 형성

Abstract

This paper explores the formation process of the typical Chollima rider or labor hero during the Chollima era. The Chollima rider must have other qualities besides labor productivity and is distinguished from the previous labor hero. During the early Chollima era, the main character was the driving force behind postwar reconstruction. Labor heroes were advanced workers or the holders of merit titles who showed zeal for active and spontaneous labor. They attempted to build a socialist paradise and reunify the country through creative labor and devoted struggle. Speed discourse was created from production emulation and technical innovation. The innovators and the shock brigade emerged as heroes of the speed campaign. The innovators were the middle- and mature-aged, while the shock brigade was made up of the young and educated who upheld communist morality. During the proper Chollima era, there was lively discussion of Chollima rider typification. The Chollima rider as a type was the key man for the great Chollima advance, with noble patriotism and a communist morality. The Chollima rider was completed as a moral through increased production and sacrifice for public good. Kil Hwack Sil, a representative labor hero of the Chollima era, became a catalyst for the typical Chollima rider. North Korean literature incorporated the internal and external environment, and when the rider type was solidified, it was based on the creators of the postwar period, advanced workers, innovators, and shock-brigades. The Chollima era’s narrative overflowed with various media, and the fields of North Korea made the hero prototype an accomplished poetic type. Mythologization of labor, which was considered sacred and honorable work, became the essence of a labor hero who was a man of new type.