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performance, however, seemed to be not these physical deficiencies but rather the shortage of qualified scientists and scientific managers.  This lack of technical leadership leads directly to one of the striking weaknesses - the absence of efforts to invent, construct, and service apparatus and equipment locally if the ready-made version is not available, and to train technicians and machinists for these purposes.

Government laboratories appeared to be seriously handicapped by the application of civil service salary ceilings and by personnel recruitment and promotion policies, procurement restrictions, and uncertain budgetary support.  The National Institute of Industrial Research was found to be performing useful and important functions as a testing and quality control institution, being capable guided in this direction by Mr. Niels Beck of USOM.  However, it cannot provide the base for the proposed new Institute.

The pool of available Ph. D.s in science in Korea from which a nucleus of capable scientists for the proposed Institute might be selected is estimated to range from 50 to 75.  In contrast, several times as many Korean Ph. D.s live and work in the United States.