Choi Eun-hee

Choi Eun- hee ( born November 20, 1926) is a South Korean actress.

Choi Eun- hee began her career as a film actress in 1947. During the 1950s and 1960s she was in South Korea, a celebrated movie star. 1953 she married the film producer and director Shin Sang -ok, with whom she shared the production company Shin operational film. In numerous films Shins she played the lead role. Their marriage ended in divorce in the 1970s.

Gained international recognition Choi less by her merits as an actress, as by their spectacular abduction by the later North Korean leader Kim Jong- il. In 1978, Choi was invited by film producers supposed to Hong Kong to discuss a possible commitment. In Hong Kong, Choi was kidnapped by North Korean agents on a ship that took off heading for the North Korean port Namp'o. After several days of driving put on the ship at the port of destination, where Choi was welcomed by its own account of Kim Jong- il personally. Also Choi's ex-husband Shin Sang -ok was abducted to North Korea. Kim Jong- il had to bring the North Korean cinema to an international level before, with the two stars of the South Korean film. Not until 1983 that met Choi and Shin in Pyongyang on one of Kim's Dinner parties together and learned that they had befallen the same fate. Subsequently, several North Korean films with Choi emerged in the lead role, directed Shin Sang- ok's, of which the most famous Pulgasari is a fantasy film, similar to the Japanese Godzilla series. In 1986, Choi and Shin, who had married in the meantime to pressure Kim Jong -il's again, on a trip to Vienna to escape. They applied for at the local U.S. Embassy political asylum.

After their return from North Korea Choi Eun- hee could not repeat her success of time before the abduction.