Street scene in Pusan where home is any available shelter from the elements. The port city became swollen with refugees early in the fighting, and soon was a teeming morass of cardboard shacks, gunny-sack tents and open-air gutter settlements such as this one. The ROK Government and the United Nations Reconstruction agency (UNKRA) are co-operating in a low-cost housing plan to build homes for some of the estimated 1,000,000 families inadequately housed.
A typical narrow, twisted, filthy alleyway in slum-ridden Pusan. Note the woman on the raised landing place cooking under the lean-to. Many houses of this type were destroyed in the big fire of October 1953, and UNKRA, in co-operation with the ROK Government, is helping replace the shacks with solid new living units.
A view of pulp reducers installed by UNKRA at the Samduk Paper Manufacturing Company plant at Anyang, Korea. Damaged machinery was reconditioned and new equipment provided to get the plant back in operation. It already is producing at the pre-war rate of 100 tons per month, and greatly increased production is expected shortly.
Paper for textbooks, banknotes, bags and newspapers again rolls from the Samduk Paper Manufacturing Company's plant at Anyang, Korea. Badly damaged during the Korean fighting, this plant is one of three which has been provided with modern equipment by UNKRA. Production has already equaled the 100-ton-monthly pre-war rate, and will be increased shortly when other newly-installed machinery goes into operation. UNKRA's aid program to the three major paper plants is budgeted at $400,000.
Looking across the Han River towards the pumping area and the irrigation ditch.
