After hearing about how North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il kidnapped filmmaker Shin Sang-Ok to make films in the north for a decade, we take a closer look at the director’s work. Shin was a prolific ...

SEOUL — Shin Sang Ok, a South Korean film director who was abducted by North Korea and spent eight years making movies there while in captivity, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 80. Shin ...

Kim Jong-Il, the second leader of North Korea and an avid movie fan, gives advice on the set of film “An Jung Geun Avenges Hirobumi Ito” in March 1979. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service ...

Director Shin Sang-ok, a household name during the 1960s and 1970s, passed away at 11:39 p.m. Tuesday at Seoul National University Hospital due to complications following a liver transplant. Born in ...

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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 ...

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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. He was 80. A leading figure of ...

Shin Sang-ok (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. His best-known films were made in the ...