Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,

the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week the Chinese sailors who vanished but left their mark on Liverpool after the Second World War.

I'd love to know the list of names of the men that were forced to leave

so we could piece together perhaps where all these children are.

Plus the women who fought for the right to pray as much as men

at the whaling wall in Jerusalem,

an ancient treasure looted by Italian troops

returned to Ethiopia, and the birth of the Club Med holiday package.

This is how life was meant to be, was meant to be enjoyed.

All day long the sunshine, so why wear anything but a swimsuit? But we begin almost as far away from a holiday camp as you can get with a

shocking episode from the history of South Korea. During the 1980s as the

country prepared to host the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Olympics,

the military government began a ruthless cleanup program which was labeled the Social Purification Project.

So-called Social Welfare Centers were established,

and thousands of citizens were rounded up and imprisoned inside them.

They experienced torture, forced labour and sexual abuse.

Bue Jong-Jung has been speaking to one survivor of the centres who has held for five years as a teenager. A beautiful spring day in 1982 in the South Korean port city of Busan.

A beautiful spring day in 1982 in the South Korean port city of Bhutan.

Chasingu was a typical 13 year old boy.

He loved to watch cartoons and play with his younger brother.

He was on his way back home from school

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