Promotional image for The Lovers and the Despot showing Choi Eun Hee and Shin Sang Ok, with color picture of Kim Jong Il in the center. Image via Soda Pictures Picture this: you are a filmmaker, and ...
Monsters and Critics: Nat Geo docuseries Inside North Korea’s Dynasty covers Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee abductions: Watch an exclusive clip
Nat Geo docuseries Inside North Korea’s Dynasty covers Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee abductions: Watch an exclusive clip
Both enigmatic and illuminating, “The Lovers and the Despot” tells the story of South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and actress wife Choi Eun-hee — the Brangelina of ’70s South Korea — who were ...
In 1978, two South Korean filmmakers--Director Shin Sang-ok and his star actress and ex-wife, Choi Eun-hee--were abducted and smuggled into North Korea in order to revolutionize the country's dying ...
The lovers in the new documentary, “The Lovers and the Despot,” are South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee and her husband, filmmaker Shin Sang-ok. The despot is Former Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Magnolia Pictures Shin Sang-ok, Kim Jong-il and Choi Eun-hee in "The Lovers and the Despot." “Why do all of our films have the same ideological plots?
An actress from South Korea who was kidnapped by the North in the 1970s and forced to make films has died at the age of 92. Choi Eun-hee and her ex-husband, director Shin Sang-ok, were both abducted ...
South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee, who is now pushing 90, was lured to Hong Kong in 1978 to talk about a film role but while playing with her female greeter’s young daughter on the waterfront, Choi ...