A Korean metallurgist adjusting a polishing machine used in preparation of polished surfaces of opaque minerals for examination in the newly set up ore dressing laboratory at the smelter.
A curious by-product of the foundry are slag bricks made form molten slag poured into moulds. The bricks (stacked behind) measure approximately eight by four by two inches and are used in all construction work on the foundry. They weigh about 9 pounds and are very durable. The production is 150,000 bricks per month dependent on the weather as they cannot be made under wet or snowy conditions. Bricks not needed for smelter construction work are sold for 70 hwan each.
Portable conveyors, part of the UNKRA imported equipment, screening and handling coal to stock piles. Later these belts will be used to handle the raw ores.
Large-scale production of quality-grade flake crystalline graphite with a carbon content ranging between 87 and 90 percent started in the Republic of Korea in January 1959 at this modern new mill. The mill was built jointly by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA), The Republic of Korea Government and the Shiheung Crystalline Graphite Mining Company of Seoul, which is the end user. Raw ore for the mill is now being mined from surface deposits which covered the hill on the left. The buildings to the right of the picture belong to a small, out-moded mill which turned out a low-grade product.
Mungyong Cement Plant, the largest manufacturing plant in operation constructed in the Republic of Korea since the Korean War, is producing more than 200,000 metric tons of cement a year. Built as part of the $128 million United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) economic aid program to Korea it started production in September 1957.
The processed flake graphite is weighted and put into 29.5 kilogram (65 pound) bags for export.
The Hon. Sven Af Geijerstam, State Minister without Portfolio, Sweden, addressing guests at the dedication ceremony of the National Medical Centre.
The Hon. Gudmund Harlem, Minister for Social Welfare, Norway, addressing guests at the dedication ceremony of the National Medical Centre.
Korean women share the load of reconstruction at the Textbook Printing Plant being built by UNKRA to aid Korean education. UNESCO is providing the building and advisory personnel at a cost of $130,000. The plant is being built at Youngdongpo, a Seoul suburb.