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Headline Seoul's Shoe-Shine Boys School

Caption Description Seoul's Shoe-Shine Boys School (officially known as the Seoul's Vocational Boys School) was started in 1952 by Pvt. Kwon Ung Pal, a young Korean transferred from a combat unit to help round-up beggar boys and put down thieving in the city. Kwon soon found out that punishing the boys did not help, and he started to teach them songs and simple lessons. The group grew rapidly and Kwon organized a primary school, which is now housed in tents and makeshift buildings on land belonging to the Korean Soldiers and Police Orphanage. Some 670 children now attend the school; they all are shoe-shine boys, street vendors, newsboys, messengers, etc. Help came to the school from volunteers of the UN Women's Guild, in the form of $10,000 worth of UNESCO Gift Coupons to equip a workshop, and from UNKRA, which added $5,000 worth of building materials to this sum.
Workers lay out the foundations of the school's new workshop.

Unique Identifier UN7659655

NICA ID 188919

Production Date 01/01/1956 6:04:30 PM

City/Location Seoul

Country Republic of Korea

Credit UN Photo

File size 4.33 MB