United Nations Photo

Conceptually similar

Seoul's Shoe-Shine Boys School

1/1/1956 6:04:29 PM

Unique ID UN7659654

Seoul's Shoe-Shine Boys School

1/1/1956 10:13:47 AM

Unique ID UN7769220

UNKRA's Help to Korea

1/1/1955 6:03:57 PM

Unique ID UN7659536

Building Construction in Korea

8/1/1954 6:02:05 PM

Unique ID UN7659403

UNKRA's Help to the Korean Colleges and University

9/1/1954 6:02:58 PM

Unique ID UN7659465

Korean Orphans

1/1/1954 6:01:00 PM

Unique ID UN7659356

Wholesale Fish Market Constructed by UNKRA in Seoul

1/1/1954 6:02:29 PM

Unique ID UN7659431

UNKRA Constructs Vocational Training Center in Pusan

1/1/1954 6:03:15 PM

Unique ID UN7659486

Reconstruction of Schools in Korea

4/1/1952 5:58:36 PM

Unique ID UN7668468

Tile Factory in Korea

8/1/1954 6:02:01 PM

Unique ID UN7659399

Reconstruction of Schools in Korea

4/1/1952 5:58:40 PM

Unique ID UN7668473

Restoration of the Korean School Libraries

9/1/1954 6:02:59 PM

Unique ID UN7659466

UNKRA's Help to Korea: Education

1/1/1954 6:02:31 PM

Unique ID UN7659434

New School Inaugurated in Un Pyung

12/10/1954 6:03:10 PM

Unique ID UN7659480

Korean Reconstruction

1/1/1954 6:01:20 PM

Unique ID UN7659350

New School Inaugurated in Un Pyung

12/10/1954 6:03:11 PM

Unique ID UN7659481

Book Week Display in Seoul

11/1/1954 6:02:55 PM

Unique ID UN7659461

New Vocational Training Centre Opened in Seoul

6/3/1957 6:04:48 PM

Unique ID UN7659678

School in a Streetcar in Korea

1/1/1954 6:01:03 PM

Unique ID UN7659331

UNKRA's Help to Korea

1/1/1955 6:04:06 PM

Unique ID UN7659549

Similar tones

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