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Pong Hack elementary school on Yong-do, a small island in the midst of Pusan. UNKRA provided materials for permanent classrooms, and KCAC aided construction of a temporary addition. The classrooms house 1,500 students, and classes are held in shifts to accommodate the boys and girls.

Books are scarce and usually owned by the teacher himself. Students share the use of books available, and devour anything they can get their hands on. UNKRA's Textbook Printing Plant built and equipped in co-operation with UNESCO, opened in September of 1954 and is to turn out 30 million textbooks a year.

After-class singing at Konduk elementary school about 10 miles out of Pusan proper. UNKRA aid in this case was increased by the parents of the rural students. To lumber, glass, nails and cement was added HW 1,200,000 of their own funds. With the community's brick kiln, they turned out enough red brick to make a fine six-room school, working over two winters.

A plaster cast is made of the treated stump of a young veteran's leg. Lee Sung Woo lost his leg in the front lines.

Thick cotton strands, produced from raw cotton in the Keumsung Spinning Company plant, are processed for reduction into fine cotton yarn which eventually will be woven into clothing and yard goods. The plant, one of three in Korea aided by UNKRA, can produce two million yards of cloth a year.

Fishing (Fish market, fish boats): Korean shipbuilders in a Pusan boatyard lay the deck of a new fishing boat designed and built under UNKRA's program of aid to the Korean fishing industry. UNKRA in 1954 has allocated $1,500,000 to projects aimed at increased production of the country's second-ranking food. It is aiding the ROK Government in a five-year boat-building program, has under construction in Hong Kong 10 deep-sea fishing boats, has rebuilt the vital Seoul City Wholesale Fish Market, and extended help in the form of loans and grants to fishermen and fishing organizations to help re-equip canneries and ice-making plants.

Choice achi by the truckload arrives each morning at the Seoul City Wholesale Fish Market, its freshness protected during the trip from fishing centers by a packing of ice. Fifty to 70 tons of fish of all types are auctioned each day at the Market, constructed by UNKRA as one of its projects in aid of the vital fishing industry. The Market was officially opened on 25 June 1954.

Pong Hack Elementary School, Pusan, where UNKRA materials have gone into permanent-type classrooms to replace those damaged by the fighting in Korea. Classroom construction and repair is budgeted at $1,060,000 in UNKRA's 1954 program, and will result in repair of 450 damaged classrooms and construction of 240 permanent classrooms. In financial year 1953 UNKRA provided materials for repair and construction of 3,000 classrooms under its $1,626,000 program of aid to education.

Eager minds drink in the printed word in schools all over the ROK. Thousands of classrooms still are needed to accommodate avid students of all ages, and books and laboratory equipment scarcely exist. But programs of classroom construction and repair is every month narrowing the gap between requirements, notably the recently-finished National Textbook Printing Plant in Seoul, are helping to feed the hungry minds of Korean children.

UNKRA housing in Pusan, where teeming slums already choked with refugees were further burdened when a fire wiped out a whole section of the city in November 1954. UNKRA is building 2,000 Korean designed homes in the area, and loaning materials, earth block machines and plans to ROK Government housing agencies and the program being carried out by the Armed Forces Aid to Korea, an army group. A few traditional-type rural homes still stand in the midst of the growing project.