Kilns at Mungyong Cement Plant. When completed the kiln building will measure 288 square meters.
Another popular Korean transporter is a wooden box with trapdoor at the bottom. The door is released by loosening the wire over the shoulder. This box is used for carrying earth, sand and small stones.
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.
Shoulder poles are useful when the weight is too great for one man to manage alone.
Korean workmen have no fear of heights. This man has climbed up 160 feet to adjust a loose wire.
Danish engineer, Gustav Nielsen from Copenhagen Denmark makes a few notes during a cement mixing operation. He is one of the team of Danish engineers who are supervising the erection of Mungyong Cement Plant for UNKRA.
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.
Industry comes to a peaceful Korean Valley. Beyond the paddy fields and reservoir, the ferro concrete silos and chimneys of Mungyong Cement Plant. This plant is being built by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) to meet Korea's desperate need for cement. When completed it will have cost $8,500,000.
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.