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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.

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.

Misil Whoi Widow's Home. In February of 1953 a group of UNKRA and voluntary agency officials formally opened a little community of 25 duplex houses on a hillside overlooking Pusan. (See previous photos from 800 on). To 57 widows of Christian clergymen it was the beginning of a new life and a chance to support themselves and their children. The Misil Whoi (sewing guild) received sewing machines from Church World Service, and $10,000 toward construction of the Mother and Child House Settlement from UNKRA. During the fighting, UNCACK (now KCAC) bought most of the guild's output of hospital sheets. Now the widows sell their produce - yard goods, eiderdowns and hand towels - on the open market.

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.