When filmmakers Robert Cannan and Ross Adam first came across the kidnapping of director Shin Sang-ok and his two-time wife Choi Eun-hee, the “Brangelina of ‘70s South Korea” who […]
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The kidnapping of South Korean film royalty by North Korea
In 1978, a debonair South Korean filmmaker and his former wife, one of the country’s biggest movie stars, were kidnapped by Kim Jong-il’s North Korean agents and forced to create films […]