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The abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee occurred in North Korea between 1978 and 1986. Shin Sang-ok was a famous South Korean filmmaker who had been married to actress Choi Eun-hee. Together, they established Shin Film and made many films through the 1960s which garnered recognition for South Korea at various film festivals. [3]
Choi Eun-hee (Korean: 최은희; November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018 [2]) was a South Korean actress. She was one of South Korea's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. [ 3 ] In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok , were abducted to North Korea , where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at ...
In February 1978, South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee and her film director husband Shin Sang-ok were kidnapped in Hong Kong and taken to Pyongyang. They were abducted on the orders of Kim Jong Il, the son of North Korean President Kim Il Sung, who wanted to use them to improve the North Korean film industry.
Choi Eun-hee was abducted under the orders from then-leader Kim Jong-il in the late 1970s.
It was the second film in North Korea by South Korea's Shin after he and his wife Choi Eun-hee had been abducted there. Runaway stars Choe Sang-soo as the protagonist and Choi as his wife. Runaway is based on a short story of the same name set in the 1920s and written by Chae Seo-hae. The protagonist, Song Ryul has to return to the countryside ...
Salt (Korean: 소금, [2] Korean pronunciation: [sʰo̞ɡɯm]) is a 1985 North Korean tragedy film directed by Shin Sang-ok.It is the third of Shin's North Korean films after he and his wife Choi Eun-hee were abducted and brought to the country against their will.
He is best known in South Korea for his efforts during the 1950s and 1960s, many of them collaborations with his wife Choi Eun-hee. Shin posthumously received the Gold Crown Cultural Medal, the country's top honor for an artist. In 1978, Shin and Choi were kidnapped by order of Kim Jong-il, who
Choe Ik-gyu played a role in the abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee, a famous South Korean director-actress couple. [16] In a secret tape recorded by Shin and Choi, Kim Jong-il is heard confiding to the couple that he decided to kidnap them on the advice of Choe who considered Shin the best director of South Korea. [17]