Boys and instructor are surrounding the turret lathe installed in the machine shop at the Centre for better acquaintance with the machine.
3 staff members of the National Vaccine Laboratory, Drs. Chun Nam Ho, Chu Chi Ki and Chung Hee Young, left Seoul Airport yesterday (25/12/57) to follow a programme of planned study in the US under the auspices of UNKRA. Their 6 months' period of advanced specialized training, which will cover vaccine production, laboratory technique and chemical research, is part of the Agency's programme of technical assistance to the National Chemical and Vaccine Laboratories for which $36,000 has been allocated. Under this scheme, 7 or 8 senior technicians will be sent to Europe or the USA to study modern ideas and techniques in their various fields and so enable the UNKRA-rehabilitated laboratories to operate with maximum efficiency.
Mungyong Cement Plant. Unloading the first shipment of Mungyong-produced cement at Seoul Railroad Station. On hand to meet the train were the Vice-Minister of Commerce and Industry, representatives of the Korea Cement Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the owners of the plant, and officials of UNKRA. The plant which was built at a cost of $9,000,000 and hwan 2,300,000,000 went into operation at the end of September. Its annual output will be 200,000 metric tons which, together with production from Samchol Cement Plant, will go a long way towards meeting Korea's domestic demands.
Korean Fundamental Education Centre. Students at KORFEC use local materials to make hand-painted film strips for use in mobile show in neighboring laboratory villages. Sound track recordings are made in the Centre's audio-visual studio to accompany these slides which illustrate Korean tales for the entertainment and education of villagers. This is only one aspect of the community development and leadership training program offered by the Centre to its 37 men and 12 women students. KORFEC, which expects to turn out its first graduate in March 1958, celebrated the first anniversary of its opening this week. Built by UNKRA at a cost of $300,000, this institution is now under the sponsorship of UNESCO.
Okke Dam dedication. A dam that will bring many acres of land under controlled irrigation was dedicated in a colourful ceremony on Saturday, November 9, at the Okke Reservoir of the Duksan Irrigation Project, Chung Chong Namdo. The building of the dam, which is one of some 147 initiated by UNKRA, was begun in 1953. UNKRA supplied 57,000 tons of cement, 2200 tons of steel bars, bulldozers, grouting pumps, air compressors and other earthmoving equipment. Later, ICA completed the reservoir. Mr. Paul Lindemann, UNKRA engineer, congratulated the Korean Irrigation Association on their drive to increase rice production by modern irrigation methods and on their teams of skilled engineers who are working on these projects.
The guest houses in process of construction at Kangwon Private Mine model village.
Putting the wicks into the candles in a factory in Seoul. This is one of the seasonal industries that has received aid from the UNKRA Small Individual Businesses Loan Fund.
Mine owner, Chung In Uk, and UNKRA consultant Paul Brabant look across the Kangwon mining area to the model housing village built to house the mine workers.
The master switchboard at the coal preparation plant at Cholam which is attached to Kangwon Private Mine. The operator controls every stage in the operation from the tipping of the coal out of the mine cars onto the double deck screens for grading until the coal is finally placed in the storage bins. This installation is the first of its kind in Korea.
The stand-by power station built by UNKRA at Changhang Smelter. This power house goes into operation should there be any power cuts in the local electrical supply.