Old and new. A Korean farmer wearing traditional dress surveys a newly-arrived 650 K.W. diesel generator. The generator will power a bucket-ladder gold placer dredge which is being assembled at Taechon-ni, Cholla Namdo. The dredge was purchased by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) to assist in the mining of valuable gold placer deposits in this area. UNKRA allocated $521,500 for the purchase of the dredge and the provision of technical assistance in putting it into operation, and training Korean personnel.
Assembled gold placer dredge in the gold mining area at Taechon-ni.
Where young Korea learns. The sign outside the UNKRA built vocational training center at Taejon. This school has 1800 students all training to become technicians. UNKRA has built or assisted 7 Technical training centers at a cost of $1,600,000.
Young Student welders at the Taejon Vocational Training Center. Here a boy is engaged in the practical task of cutting a piece of iron bar, while the other watches.
In the sheet metal workshop at Taejon Vocational Training Center. In the elementary classes boys learn how to make buckets and other simple objects in metal that can be used as the school equipment.
Instruction in an enamel baking test on an electric motor armature.
Students and instructor in civil engineering section of the Taejon Vocational Training Center.
Pets are allowed at the Specialized Children's Home. Here is a happy orphan with his best friend.
The administration building at the Specialized Children's Home near Seoul.
The Beginnings of a New University. Father Theodore Geppart of the Jesuit Mission in Seoul, Korea, and Mr. Mark Kang, librarian, document $10,000 worth of books donated by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) to form the nucleus of a teacher training library.