- First
One of the handful of films Choi Eun-hee made in her brief directing career before her 1978 abduction to North Korea cut it short
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Choi Eun-hee
최은희
1926 – 2018
- Genres
- Drama
- Topics
- Justice
- Region
- East Asia
- Heritage
- South Korea
- Featured in
- Pioneers
Biography
Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress, who was one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, 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 US Embassy in Vienna in 1986. They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.
Selected Filmography
Selected Recognition
- First
Choi Eun-hee's directorial debut made her only the third woman to direct a Korean feature film, and the first to also star as the lead
