Field Coverage

UNKRA Sparks Increased Coal Production in Korea

1 January 1955

As a part of its effort to help increase coal production in Korea, the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) has engaged the services of British mining consultants and technicians to work with Korean mine managers, engineers and technicians in the rehabilitation and modernization of the coal mines. The Macha-ri coal field, located some 150 miles southeast of Seoul in the mountainous region of Kangwon-do, is one of the principal coal mining sites being worked at present.
The narrow-gauge electric railway, taken at Bamchi No.2, the highest of the mines.

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