52 53 that highlighted merely a small number of family separations, it then continued to be aired for 138 days. Through this way over 10,000 people managed to trace their relatives. In 2015, UNESCO declared the recordings for the programme and the archive of documents part of the world’s documentary heritage. More often than not refugees do not cross national borders but first look for protection and safety within their own country, in the hope that they will soon be able to return home. This category forms the world’s largest group of refugees. According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN refugee aid agency, more than 62 million people in 35 countries were internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the end of 2022. Ukraine, along with Colombia and Syria, is currently among the countries with the highest number of IDPs. In 2014 Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula, backing separatist groups in eastern Ukraine who were intent on using military force to split the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk from the INDEX CARD USED TO SEARCH FOR MISSING RELATIVES Seoul (South Korea), 1983 Participants in the TV programme held up index cards for the camera. The case number was written in the top left corner, with a contact telephone number below. CLIPS FROM THE TV PROGRAMME FINDING DISPERSED FAMILIES against the civilian population and exacerbated the country’s division into North and South which has lasted until the present day. The Korean War and the country’s division forced millions of families apart. Contacting relatives across the border became extremely difficult if not altogether impossible. In 1983, 30 years after the armistice, the overwhelming public response to the South Korean TV programme Finding Dispersed Families made it clear that many South Koreans were still looking for their relatives. Initially broadcast as a two-hour programme SCAN ME
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