kdrama1-4, Exercise 2: Shin Sang-ok

Model answer:

Shin Sang-ok began as an assistant production designer on Viva Freedom! (1946) and became known as the "Prince of South Korean Cinema"; his company Shin Films reportedly made around 300 films in the 1960s, and his 1961 film The Houseguest and My Mother was South Korea's first Academy Award foreign-language submission. The Korean-cinema article says his licence was revoked in 1975, but the Shin article says only that Park Chung Hee closed his studio after Shin "ran afoul of the repressive government in 1978"; the two years differ and the articles do not reconcile them. In 1978 Choi Eun-hee was kidnapped in Hong Kong and Shin, searching for her, was kidnapped too; the article says on orders from Kim Jong Il. North Korea denies the kidnapping and claims Shin came willingly, but the article says secret tapes supported their story and a UN report supports the abduction account. The couple escaped to the US embassy in Vienna in 1986; Shin returned to South Korea in 1999 and died on 11 April 2006.

Sources: Wikipedia, Shin Sang-ok; Cinema of South Korea.