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Those were the amazing adventures of South Korean Movie Director Shin Sang Ok and his actress wife Choi Un Hui. Or at least that is what they told the press last week, when the pair suddenly surfaced in the U.S. Some skeptics who have followed the saga, however, openly wondered whether the tale was a little too strange even for fiction...
This much is known. Shin, now 59, was once a king of the film industry in South Korea, where he produced more than 200 movies, many of them award winners. The beautiful Choi, 54, was adored by millions. When both disappeared in 1978, their public jumped to the conclusion that they were the victims of foul play. Industry insiders suggested the film couple had fled from financial troubles. Shin apparently had not made a film since 1975. Years passed with no word of the pair's whereabouts. Then, in 1984, Shin and Choi showed up in Yugoslavia, claiming that they...
...March 21. They had stopped in the Austrian capital on their way to Budapest, where they were to begin work on a film about Genghis Khan. So their story goes, they fled to the embassy in a taxi with another cab full of North Korean agents in hot pursuit. Shin claimed last week that he was so trusted by North Korean officials that they had deposited $2.3 million in a Vienna bank account...
...Baltimore last week, the twosome said that they had been kidnaped by Kim Jong Il, 45, the son of North Korea's strongman Kim Il Sung, 74. The younger Kim, they said, is a film buff with 20,000 reels in his personal collection. According to Shin and Choi, he has taken over much of the work of governing. They further claim that anyone caught criticizing the Kims is summarily thrown in prison...
...This Issue: David S. Hilzenrath '87 Night Editors: Arthur S. Rublin '89 Jospeh F Kahn '87 David S. Hilzenrath '87 James E. Schwartz '88 Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Shari Rudavsky '88 Editorial Editor: J. Andrew Mendelsohn '87 John N. Ross '87 Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Copy Editor: Michael D. Shin '88 Features Editor: Thomas J. Winslow '87 Photo Editor: Laura G. Alcott '87 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Business Editor: Dahlia Martin...