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To assist in meeting the increasing demands for newsprint, bank-notes, textbooks and utility paper, the UNKRA allocated $400,000 for the importation of American machine equipment, parts, supplies and construction materials, to be used in South Korea's paper industry. One of the principal receivers of this equipment and materials, the Samduk Paper Manufacturing Company at Anyang, in Kyonggi Province, has been rehabilitated to pre-war monthly production rate of 100 tons of finished products. This photograph shows part of the processing machinery at the Samduk plant. Scrap paper is gathered and sorted for quality, then reduced to pulp in huge machines provided by UNKRA. Six tons of scrap produce five tons of finished paper. Kyonggi province, 1954. [Photograph 1266]

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Two instructors from the Korean Merchant Marine Academy -- Messrs. Sohn Tae Hyon (seated), Chief Instructor, and Kang Kyung Wok, Chief Engineer -- are at present attending observer courses at the Kings Point (Merchant) Marine Academy, near New York, under sponsorship of the UNKRA. They are seen here discussing searoutes from New York to Korea with Lt. Leonard Urschel, Assistant to the Dean of Kings Point Academy, in the college library. [Photograph 3389]

200 pigs flown to Korea in first animal airlift. Two hundred pigs made a flight half-way around the world to do their part in the reconstruction of Korea. The UNKRA imported this breeding stock to replenish the drastically reduced Korean supply. The Heifer Project Committee, an interdenominational voluntary society, cooperates with the U.N. Agency in this project. This picture, taken upon arrival of the plane in Korea, shows Dr. Reisinger, of UNKRA (at right), and Mr. Lee (left), Korean Quarantine Representative, helping unload the crated pigs from the truck in which they were taken to the Quarantine Station. Pusan, Korea, June 1952.

Agricultural technicians, recipients of UNKRA study grants, examine watermellons, very popular Korean fruit enjoying a bumper crop this year. Pak Il Nam is showing a sample of this important summer produce to Anne C. Raick, UNKRA Public Information Officer, and Burling B. Hamer, UNKRA, Chief, Division of Food and Agriculture. Looking on are Pak Ki Soong (in coat and glasses), Nam Hyun Hi (behind Mr. Pak), Lim Ki Jip, Chang Yung Chul, Bak Heung Duk, Lee Chai Yung, Kim Won Kyu, Sohn Eung Ryong and Kang Chung Ok of UNKRA Public Information. Directly behind the group stand Chang Sang Tai (left) and Tcha Kwin Hi. Photograph: Chung In Key.

By 1953, The UNKRA had allocated nearly $8,500,000 to rebuild South Korea's educational system. This year, if enough funds are forthcoming, the Agency plans to spend another $2,875,000 for the same purpose. Some 300,000 textbooks have been bought for the drive against illiteracy. More than 3,000 tons of paper have been imported to print another 38,000,000 textbooks. The Government of Korea and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) worked with UNKRA in a textbook printing plant near Seoul. This plant, which opened on 16 September, is expected to have produced about 15,000,000 textbooks by the end of the year. This picture shows the distribution of new books to a class of young Korean schoolchildren. Nov 1954. [Photograph 1548]

The UNKRA in conjunction with the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Government of the Republic of Korea and the American Korea Foundation has opened a National Rehabilitation Center at Tongnae, near Pusan. The Center which UNKRA has equipped at a cost of $283,000 includes for the patients and a workshop for making prostheses. The loss of his leg (he was run over on a rail track) has not discouraged this youngster. Fitted with a new peg leg, he shows he can skip with the best of them. [Photograph 1806]

For breeding purposes, 270 pigs and 100 goats have been flown to Korea from the United States by the UNKRA. The project was undertaken jointly by the Agency and the 'Heifer Project Committee', an international voluntary society.

UNKRA sparks increased production in Korea. As a part of its effort to help increase coal production in Korea, the UNKRA has engaged the services of British mining consultants and technicians to work with Korean mine managers, engineers and technicians in the rehabilitation and modernization of the coal mines. The Macha-ri coal field, located some 150 miles southeast of Seoul in the mountainous region of Kwang-do, is one of the principal coal mining sites being worked at present. There, a narrow-gauge railway brings coal from three high'level mines - Bamchi Nos. 1 and 2 Solchi - down to the entrance of the main mine, Pangyo, in the valley below. From there, coal from all four mines is carried by aerial ropeway 7-1/2 miles overland to Yongwol power station. Here: the Korean Deputy Superintendent discusses the day's coal production of the Pangyo mines with his Chief Engineer. Photograph 1797.