UNKRA's Help to Korea: Paper Manufacture

To assist in meeting the increasing demands for newsprint, bank-notes, textbooks and utility paper, the UN Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) allocated $400,000 for the importation of American machine equipment, parts, supplies and construction materials, to be used in South Korea's paper industry. One of the principal receivers of this equipment and materials, the Samduk Paper Manufacturing Company at Anyang, in Kyonggi Province has been rehabilitated to the pre-war monthly production rate of 100 tons of finished products.
This photograph shows part of the processing machinery at the Samduk plant. Scrap paper is gathered and sorted for quality, then reduced to pulp in huge machines provided by UNKRA. Six tons of scrap produce five tons of finished paper.