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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.

Textbook Printing Plant at Yongdongpo.

Korean workmen laying a firm foundation for heavy printing presses on the construction site of the Textbook Printing Plant at Youngdongpo, near Seoul. The United Nations Korea Reconstruction Agency is providing the building at a cost of $130,000 and UNESCO is providing presses that will turn out textbooks to replace those destroyed in the fighting.

The houses, equipped with the traditional ondol floor which uses heat from the kitchen stove to warm the sleeping rooms, are built with a minimum of exchange-consuming imported materials. The earth blocks are plastered with a mixture of earth and cement in the same proportions as that used in the clocks themselves.

A family in their new home.

The sewing room of the two-story work building, an addition to the community which the widows financed from their own sales. Sewing machines were provided by CWS. Children's garments are produced here from cloth the women buy.

Skeins of cotton are run onto spools to be used by the looms.

In another part of the building, the women prepare skeins of cotton for the looms. The skeins are washed and fluffed before being woven into colored yardage.

In another part of the building, the women prepare skeins of cotton for the looms. The skeins are washed and fluffed before being woven into colored yardage.

Hand-hewn looms, made by the women themselves, are manipulated by a graceful co-ordination of hand and foot. The women turn out about 300 yards of cloth and some 90 dozen towels per month. Besides the income from their produce, the home receives an allotment of about HW 1,500 (about $US 5) per child per month from the Christian Children's Fund, a field arm of the National Council of Churches.