Choi Eun-hee

This is a Korean name; the family name is Choi.

Choi Eun-hee
Born	November 20, 1926 (1926-11-20) (age 85)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1947–1985
Spouse	Shin Sang-ok
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, who she had recently divorced, were kidnapped to North Korea by orders from future dictator Kim Jong-il. 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.

According to the Internet Movie Database, from 1955 to 1985, Choi appeared in eighty-one films. She received the award for best actress at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1985, for her part in the film Sogum.^[1]

With Shin she wrote an account of their years in Pyongyang.^[2] Shin also wrote his own autobiography shortly before his death.^[3]

See also

• Cinema of Korea
• North Korean abductions of South Koreans

External links and references

• Eun-hie Choi at the Internet Movie Database
• Inside the mind of Kim Jong-il, BBC, July 21, 2003, retrieved January 29, 2006
• Kidnapped by North Korea, Mike Thomson, BBC, March 5, 2003, retrieved January 29, 2006

References

1. ^ Internet Movie Database
2. ^ 우리의 탈출은 끝나지 않았다: 신상옥·최은희 비록
3. ^ 난, 영화였다 : 영화감독신상옥이남긴마지막글들

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