Choi Eun-hee

Biography

Choi Eun-hee was a renowned South Korean actress born on November 20, 1926. She rose to fame in the 1940s and became one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s, starring in over 130 films alongside her husband, director Shin Sang-ok. In 1978, she was abducted to North Korea with Shin but escaped and returned to South Korea in 1999 after a decade in the United States.