[Photograph 1545]
The UNKRA allocated $350,000 to build and equip an 18-building Merchant Marine Academy at Yong-do, Pusan, which will be capable of accommodating 400 students currently undergoing training in temporary quarters. The Academy is nearing completion. This photographs shows the main buildings of the Merchant Marine Academy in process of construction. Centre front, the laboratory with warehouse behind. Top left the two dormitories and lower down the mess hall and bath house. The centre building which will provide lecture rooms and assembly halls is at the moment concealed by the temporary wooden building. [Photograph 1696]
UNKRA-furnished technical assistance played a highly important role in bringing about the great increase in coal production that has occurred in South Korea. [Photograph 2687]