UNKRA Opens Three Vocational Training Center

Three vocational training centres that will improve technical educations in the Korean province of Cholla-namdo were officially opened at a joint ceremony held at Kwangju Technical High School today. The schools, Kwangju and Mokpo Technical High Schools and Yosu Fisheries School, are part of an overall $11,500,000 educational programme under which the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) has built over 4,700 classrooms, re-equipped laboratories and libraries imported teaching aids, constructed a merchant marine academy, established two training institutes, as well as setting up seven vocational training centres' in the main cities of the country.
Here, students from the Yosu Fisheries School are shown handling and packing fish on a trawler. The 40-year old School is not only part of UNKRA's educational programme but also of the extensive assistance given in the re-establishment of the fishery industry.