Harbor Dredge: Korea's shipping has been hampered since early in the war by heavily-silted harbors which reduced the country's ability to receive military and aid goods. Two of her three dredges were sunk and a third was badly damaged. UNKRA undertook a harbor-dredging program which included the building of a dredge in Honolulu at a cost of more than $1,000,000, the hydrographic survey of Kunsan and other harbors, and the provision of facilities for training Korean dredging crews and equipment for repair of other dredges. The dredge Chin Hae Man arrived in Kunsan in December of 1953, and was officially turned over to the government of the Republic of Korea on 14 January,1954.
U. N. Day Ceremony: UN Day 1953 was celebrated by UNKRA in Korea at a ceremony during which the key to the main building of the Central Forest Experiment Station at Seoul was turned over to the government of the Republic of Korea. John E. Goodison, Assistant Agent General, delivered the dedication address in the absence of General Coulter, who was in New York.
Korean Ship: In October of 1953 UNKRA charted for the first time a ship of the Republic of Korea's three-vessel merchant fleet. The Motorship Korea loaded 6,000,000 board feet of lumber to be used in the Agency's program of classroom construction. It sailed from Vancouver, B.C. in mid-November.
