First Batch of Students to Graduate from KORFEC

Built and equipped by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency
(UNKRA) at a cost of USD $300,000, the Korean Fundamental Education Centre
in Suwon will graduate its first batch of students on 24 March 1958. Opened in November 1956, the Centre is operated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The nineteen students in the first graduating class have undergone an intensive 18-month course in various aspects of community development and fundamental education. Subjects include First Aid, Sanitation, Health and Hygiene, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Projected and Non-projected Audio-Visual Aids, Social Surveys, English, Nutrition, Home Economics and Fundamental Education. Here, two trainees (with notebooks) from the Centre discuss the sesame crop with farmers in a nearby village, as part of their field work in ""laboratory"" villages, to gain first-hand information on rural problems.