Korean labourer with typical A frame load at Mungyong Cement Plant.
Concrete was poured continuously for four days to make this 40 meter high chimney. Method of withdrawing the formwork on completion was new to the Koreans.
The traditional thatched cottages of the villages crouch under the very walls of the large modern cement plant at Mungying. Though in time the main employment will be at the plant, at present, as for generations before, the people of the valley live off the rice fields.
The Beginnings of a New University. Father Theodore Geppart of the Jesuit Mission in Seoul, Korea, and Mr. Mark Kang, librarian, document $10,000 worth of books donated by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) to form the nucleus of a teacher training library.
Students and instructor in civil engineering section of the Taejon Vocational Training Center.
Instruction in an enamel baking test on an electric motor armature.
In the sheet metal workshop at Taejon Vocational Training Center. In the elementary classes boys learn how to make buckets and other simple objects in metal that can be used as the school equipment.
Old and new. A Korean farmer wearing traditional dress surveys a newly-arrived 650 K.W. diesel generator. The generator will power a bucket-ladder gold placer dredge which is being assembled at Taechon-ni, Cholla Namdo. The dredge was purchased by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) to assist in the mining of valuable gold placer deposits in this area. UNKRA allocated $521,500 for the purchase of the dredge and the provision of technical assistance in putting it into operation, and training Korean personnel.
National Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Masan. Children's ward situated in the hills above the sea.
National Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Masan. Children's ward situated in the hills above the sea.