Choi Eun-hee

This is a Korean name; the family name is Choi.
Choi Eun-hee
Born (1926-11-20) November 20, 1926
Nationality South Korean
Occupation Actress
Years active 1947–2006
Spouse(s) Shin Sang-ok (divorced 1976, remarried 1983)
Korean name
Hangul 최은희
Hanja 崔銀姬
Revised Romanization Choe Eun-Hui
McCune–Reischauer Ch'oe Ǔn-hŭi

Choi Eun-hee (born November 20, 1926) is a South Korean actress. She began her film career in 1947 in the film A New Oath. For the next 20 years, she was one of the biggest stars in Korean film and led the Shin Film company along with her husband, the director Shin Sang-ok.

In 1978, Choi and Shin, whom she had recently divorced due to Shin having committed adultery, were kidnapped to North Korea by order of Kim Jong-il.[1] Kim's plan was to have Shin work as his propagandist and for Choi to be the star. Shortly after agreeing to the demands of Kim, they were remarried at his recommendation. The couple finally staged their escape in 1986 while on a trip to Vienna, fleeing to the United States embassy and requesting political asylum.[2][3] Choi appeared in eighty-one films. She received the award for best actress at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival in 1985, for her part in the film Sogum.[4][5][6][7]

With Shin, she wrote an account of their years in Pyongyang.[8] Shin also wrote his autobiography shortly before his death.[9]

In 2015, an English-language biography of her life (along with Shin Sang-ok) was published by Paul Fischer titled A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker.[10]

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References

  1. ↑ Kim, Chanmi (2013-08-12). "배우 최은희 "외도로 이혼한 신상옥 납북 후 용서했다"".
  2. ↑ "Same Bed, Different Dreams". This American Life. 2015-05-02. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
  3. ↑ According to the Internet Movie Database, from 1955 to 1985,
  4. ↑ "14th Moscow International Film Festival (1985)". MIFF. Retrieved 2013-02-10.
  5. ↑ Sebag-Montefiore, Clarissa (Jan 28, 2015). "The Day North Korea Really Did Steal the Show - The Book ‘A Kim Jong-Il Production’ Explores a Bizarre Case in Cinema History". The Wall Street Journal (New York). Archived from the original on Jan 29, 2015. Retrieved Aug 27, 2015.
  6. ↑ Fischer, Paul (February 3, 2015). A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power. Flatiron Books. ISBN 978-1250054265.
  7. ↑ Kirby, Michael Donald; Biserko, Sonja; Darusman, Marzuki (7 February 2014). "Report of the detailed findings of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - A/HRC/25/CRP.1". United Nations Human Rights Council: 288–289 (Paragraph 905). Archived from the original on Feb 27, 2014. In 1978, South Korean Actress Ms Choi Un-hee was abducted from Hong Kong after travelling there to meet people in the movie industry. After being forced onto a boat by DPRK agents, Ms Choi demanded an explanation from the abductors, to which they replied “Madam Choi, we are now going to the bosom of General Kim Il-sung”. On her arrival in the DPRK on 22 January, she was met by Kim Jong-il who took her on a tour of Pyongyang. Upon learning of her disappearance, Ms Choi’s ex-husband Shin Sang-ok, a leading filmmaker, went to Hong Kong to look for her. He was also abducted from Hong Kong by the same DPRK agent in July 1978. Kim Jong-il said to Mr Shin upon his arrival in the DPRK “I had ordered the operations group to carry out a project to bring you here as I wanted a talented director like you to be in the North.” This information is consistent with the accounts from former DPRK officials who were personally involved in abductions who indicated that Kim Jong-il personally signed off on abduction orders. During their time in the DPRK, Mr Shin Sang-ok and Ms Choi Un-hee were involved in a number of DPRK-produced movies of which Kim Jong-il was the executive producer. The couple escaped into the United States Embassy while visiting a film festival in Vienna in 1986. They later settled in the United States; Mr Shin has since passed away.
  8. ↑ 우리의 탈출은 끝나지 않았다: 신상옥·최은희 비록
  9. ↑ 난, 영화였다 : 영화감독신상옥이남긴마지막글들
  10. ↑ Paul Fischer (2015). A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker. Flatiron Books. ISBN 978-1250054265.

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