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EPISODE · Jul 18, 2020 · 50 MIN

South Korea's 1980s prison camps

from The History Hour · host BBC World Service

The horrors of South Korea's so-called Social Purification project, the vanished Chinese sailors who left their mark on Liverpool after the Second World War and the return of a huge ancient monument to Ethiopia from Italy. Also fighting for the rights of Jewish women at the Western Wall in Jerusalem plus the origins of the holiday camp, Club Med.Photo: Seung-woo Choi talking to reporters. Credit BBC.

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