UNKRA's Aid to Korean Textile Industry

Through the importation of 55,400 cotton spindles from the United Kingdom, and of opening and picking equipment from the United States, at a cost of US$2,810,000, the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) has returned to operation to three of South Korea's war-ruined textile plants. Completion of the Rehabilitation of the three plants will increase Korea's cloth production by an estimated 39,000,000 yards annually and provide employment for 3,000 people.
This photograph shows operators testing cotton yarn for strength at the Keumsung Spinning Company plant at Anyang, near Seoul, one of the three major Korean textile firms rehabilitated and re-equipped by UNKRA.