so workers did not need to use the restrooms as often. The slogan of ‘Let us dash forward in the spirit of Chollima’ was adopted to help motivate workers, with the result that successes were reported in many areas of economic activity. North Korea experienced an annual industrial growth of 36.6 percent during the five-year plan. In 1959, the Chollima Work Team Movement was started. This was a system of socialist competition waged among teams of workers, upholding the Communist lifestyle and working under the lofty socialist ideal "One for all and all for one." “A work team would receive the title of Chollima Work Team by setting a production target high enough to stand out among other work teams in the whole nation and actually attaining the target as assessed competitively under a national evaluation system.” If the title was awarded the team and its members would receive honorific items such as Chollima embossed banners, flags and notebooks. The Chollima Work Team Movement was initiated by Chin Ung-won who organized fellow workers on his work team for the goal of achieving production far exceeding the quota assigned to them. With Chin's success and the encouragement from the national government the movement gained rapid massive support and Chin became the ideal Korean worker. The Chollima Work Team Movement gained 178,000 members less than a year and a half after its start. Effects This Chollima movement, however, was not able to remain successful indefinitely. The nation obtained the short-term gains in quantity of production but at the cost of lower quality. The economy was distorted as resources were shifted to extensively fund industries while neglecting other needed sectors. Human exhaustion also followed this movement. Little labor remained and resources were stretched to their limits. Economic output began to fall and by 1961 the nation was facing an exhausted labor force. During the mid 1960s, North Korea stopped publishing economic statistics except for percentage increase over previous periods. The Kim Il-sung-directed economy undoubtedly needed alterations. Kim Il-sung however, had no economists who were willing or able to tell him that his economic plans needed to be changed. North Korea has never denounced Chollima or recognized its failures. Even Kim Jong-il gave speeches praising Chollima until his death. Chollima is still supported and used by the current North Korean regime. The term Chollima and ideas from the early movement still exist in North