Outside the new wood-and-cement building, school children romp in the crisp winter air. Materials for construction of the 11-classroom building were imported at a cost of $17,600. UNKRA's 1953 programme of school construction and educational rehabilitation was budgeted at $1.8 million; a further $1 million was allocated for continuation of the work under the financial year 1954 programme. The Agency has already repaired more than 1,000 classrooms, and has built or is in process of building more than 1,800 additional rooms.
Outside the new wood-and-cement building, school children romp in the crisp winter air. Materials for construction of the 11-classroom building were imported at a cost of $17,600. UNKRA's 1953 programme of school construction and educational rehabilitation was budgeted at $1.8 million; a further $1 million was allocated for continuation of the work under the financial year 1954 programme. The Agency has already repaired more than 1,000 classrooms, and has built or is in process of building more than 1,800 additional rooms.
Even in the Kildong Elementary School's tent, however, Christmas is celebrated.
Seen from afar, the Un Pyung primary school nestles among ragged Korean hills. There are seven classrooms in the building at right, four in the one on the left.
New warehouses nearing completion at Kunsan, vital port on Korea's west coast. UNKRA used the concrete floors and pillars of bombed-out warehouses, and erected the structures with $285,000 worth of imported materials and building costs of HW 32 million. The framework of the three, which together provide 70,000 sq. ft. of storage space is completed, and a sheathing of heavy corrugated iron is now being added. UNKRA has turned the buildings over to the ROK Ministry of Home Affairs, which will use them for storing aid goods which flow through the port.
Housing construction in the Tongnae area of Pusan, The sign indicates the co-operation of the Armed Forces Aid to Korea (AFAK) program in grading the site and laying out roads.
Two views of construction work.
The framework of the main shop building goes up at Pusan.
Construction in process.
The Academy's warehouse takes shape at the right as workmen mix mortar to bind the building blocks.