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Shin Sang-ok (Korean: 신상옥; born Shin Tae-seo; October 11, 1926 – April 11, 2006) was a South Korean filmmaker with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits to his name.
The abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee occurred in North Korea between 1978 and 1986. Shin Sang-ok was a famous South Korean film director who had been married to actress Choi Eun-hee. Together, they established Shin Film and made many films through the 1960s which garnered recognition for South Korea at various film festivals. [1]
Shin Sang-ok. Producer: My Mother and Her Guest. Shin alleged that he and his wife were kidnapped from their native South Korea in the late 1970s and held for several years in North Korea to make movies for Kim Jong Il, son of the N. Korean leader.
The movie-like life of film director and producer Shin Sang-ok, who led the Golden Age of Korean cinema in the 1960s, revolutionized the North Korean film industry after being abducted to the...
Apr 13, 2006 · Shin Sang Ok, a pioneering film director who said that his life was too unbelievable to be a movie plot, what with his introducing the kiss to North and South Korean cinema, being kidnapped...
Apr 12, 2006 · SEOUL — Shin Sang Ok, 80, a South Korean movie director who was abducted with his actress wife to North Korea and made films for Kim Jong Il before escaping to tell the world of the...
Shin Sang-ok was a prolific South Korean film producer and director with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits to his name. His best-known films were made in the 1950s and 60s when he was known as the "Prince of Korean Cinema".
Feb 27, 2015 · Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee in 1989 after their escape from North Korea. But Kim Jong-il wanted something more. He was desperate for the North Korean movie industry to...
Apr 27, 2006 · Shin Sang-Ok, film director and abductee, died on April 11th, aged 79. Apr 27th 2006|. AFP. VIEWERS of the movie “Team America: World Police” will have gathered that North Korea's...
Apr 12, 2006 · Director Shin Sang-ok, a central figure in Korean film history who was abducted to North Korea in the 1970s and who later worked in Hollywood, died Wednesday in Seoul at the age of 80.
