Field Coverage

UNKRA's Help to Korea

1 January 1955

At least 1,000,000 new homes are needed in Korea, about one out of every four South Korean having to live in makeshift shelters. The UN Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) has brought a new approach to house-building in this country which is being used in its combined 1953-54 programme.
This photograph shows workers laying the first row of blocks on the stone and concrete foundation of a new house. Skilled labor is not required for this simple operation. [1955]

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