An alley in the Misil Mother and Child House settlement.
These women have just inspected their new homes. The houses are Korean style, each with a room about nine feet square and a small kitchen. Heat is provided by the traditional ondol floor, which carries heat in radial tunnels under the floor from the kitchen fires.
View of the northern edge of the settlement. School girls, the daughters of widows, explore the community.
The deputy superintendent discusses the day's coal production in Pangyo mine with the chief engineer.
The narrow gauge railroad on the dyke at Taechon-ni. The immense amount of earth filling and building materials needed to build this six kilometer sea wall were carried on this track.
Gustav Plougsted, a Danish carpenter a member of the team supervising the construction of Mungyong Cement Plant, discusses a newly built water tank with a Korean colleague.
A view of the 40 acre site of Mungyong Cement Plant taken from the top of the water tower. In foreground the crane storage in process of construction.
Danish engineer, Gustav Nielsen from Copenhagen Denmark makes a few notes during a cement mixing operation. He is one of the team of Danish engineers who are supervising the erection of Mungyong Cement Plant for UNKRA.
Industry comes to a peaceful Korean Valley. Beyond the paddy fields and reservoir, the ferro concrete silos and chimneys of Mungyong Cement Plant. This plant is being built by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) to meet Korea's desperate need for cement. When completed it will have cost $8,500,000.
The administration building at the Specialized Children's Home near Seoul.