July 2023
North Korean Sports Poster Series | 2
The North Korean Sports Poster Series is a collection of sports-related North Korean propaganda posters. Koryo Studio delves deep to explore the symbolism behind the works.
English translations provided.
Title: Let’s pass in all the sports activities! // 모든종목에 합격하자!
Banners: September – October are the months for assessing people’s physical fitness. // 9-10월은 인민체력검정월간이다.
Artist: Kye Sang Hua // 계상화
Other: Korean Workers’ Party Press, Pyongyang Comprehensive Printing Factory; “발행 조선로동당출판사 인쇄 평양종합인쇄공장”
Year: August 1982
North Korean Sports Poster
“Let’s Pass in all the Sports Activities!”
The People’s Physical Fitness Assessment
In a track and field competition to pass the people’s physical fitness assessment, a worker breaks through the winning tape. The artist, Kye Sang Hua, emphasises this by having him also slice through the slogan.
Sports
Various workers are running, doing the shot-put, pull-ups, the horizontal bar, and the high jump.
A troop of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards (volunteers who make up a home guard/militia) are cutting across the scene at a quick march pace.
The smoking industrial background and cityscape emphasise that a healthy workforce is needed to keep the country’s industrial output running at pace.
KOREAN TRANSLATION
인민체력검정에 합격하기위한 륙상경기에서 우승테프를 끊고들어오는 로동자.철봉과 너비뛰기를 하고있고 로농적위대원들이 집단달리기를 하고있다.
