Cloth is then sewn into garments in small local shops.
Heavier cloth, used for rough work clothes, is bleached in open-air vats.
A chain of buckets scrapes silt from the harbor bottom and carries it up to the top of a conveyor belt.
Women washing on a Saturday afternoon at Uijongbu. The women make small fires to heat the river water, then pound and rinse their clothing in the stream. The final operation is a good washing for their own hair. Young girls and children often have a complete bath.
Mr. Lee, Miss Thea Hood of UNKRA's Division of Education and Miss M.L. Abeille, Chief of the Division. Miss Hood, of Australia is holding a phonograph which is one of 25 delivered at the ceremony. Miss Abeille is from France.
Men and women working on construction of a water-storage basin in a Korean farming village, one of many projects undertaken by villagers under UNKRA's Community Development Employment programme.
Men and women working on construction of a water-storage basin in a Korean farming village, one of many projects undertaken by villagers under UNKRA's Community Development Employment programme.
An employee of the Laboratory testing some samples.
Korean technician inspecting finish of copper wire cable as it is drawn from one of the reconstructed cable splicing machines.
Tending cotton spindles at one of three large textile plants re-equipped by UNKRA under a project aimed at providing an additional 40 million yards of cloth yearly. Long rows of modern machinery now fill the rebuilt plant of the Keumsung Spinning Company at Anyang, near Seoul.