Choi eun hee kidnapped baby
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Choi Eun-hee
South Korean actress (–)
In this Korean name, the family name is Choi.
Choi Eun-hee (Korean:&#;최은희; November 20, – April 16, [2]) was a South Korean actress. She was one of South Korea's most popular stars of the s and s.[3] In , 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 the U.S. embassy in Vienna in [4][5] They returned to South Korea in after spending a decade in the United States.[6]
Biography
[edit]Early career and success in South Korea
[edit]Choi was born in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, in Her first acting role was in the film A New Oath.[3] She rose to fame the following year after starring in the film The Sun of Night and soon became known as one of the "troika" of Korean film, alongside actresses Kim Ji-mee and Um Aing-ran.[7]
After she married director Shin
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Choi Eun-hee: South Korean actress who was kidnapped by North dies
A South Korean actress, once kidnapped by North Korea and forced to make films for the state, has died at
Choi Eun-hee was a leading actress in the South when she was kidnapped on the orders of then leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-il in the late s.
Her ex-husband, a famous film director, was also abducted several months later. The duo later escaped.
North Korea has always denied abducting the couple, saying they had sought sanctuary there.
Ms Choi died on Monday afternoon in hospital in South Korea.
"My mother passed when she went to hospital for kidney dialysis this afternoon," Ms Choi's eldest son, director Shin Jeong-gyun, told news outlet Yonhap.
The kidnapping and a film buff
Born in November in South Korea's Gyeonggi province, Ms Choi began her bio career in
She and her then-husband Shin Sang-ok eventually rose to be among South Korea's most celebra
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Remembering Choi Eun-hee, the South Korean film actor once abducted bygd Pyongyang
On 16 May , the actress Choi Eun-hee took to a stage in Seoul to receive a film award from the hands of General Park Chung-hee, who had become South Korea’s leader in a military coup a year earlier. With a wry grin, she dropped to one knee before Park. He laughed, recognising the cheek in her exaggerated display of deference.
Choi, who lived her life in the shadow of despots, was well acquainted with dominerande men. The extraordinary film career she shared with her husband and frequent director Shin Sang-ok was at once championed and complicated by two dictators, who admired her talent yet sought to harness her immense popularity for their own political gain.
After years of starring in popular films in South Korea beneath Park’s watchful eye, she said that she was kidnapped bygd neighbouring foe North Korea, to become an agent of propaganda in Kim Jong-il’s nascent spelfilm industry. That incredible story,