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词条 Choe Ik-gyu
释义

  1. Early and personal life

  2. Career

     Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee  Return to politics  Succession of Kim Jong-un 

  3. Filmography

  4. Opera

  5. See also

  6. References

     Works cited 

  7. External links

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Choe Ik-gyu ({{Korean|hangul=최익규|context=north}},[1] born 27 February 1934), also known under the pseudonym Choe Sang-gun, is a North Korean film director, propagandist, and politician.

Choe became the head of the Korea Film Studio in 1956 at age 22. By the time Kim Jong-il took over the country's film industry in 1968, Choe was the most experienced filmmaker of North Korea. Kim and Choe became close associates – Kim producing and Choe directing – a number of important North Korean films. Sea of Blood (1968) and The Flower Girl (1972) were "Immortal Classics" that, in addition to being popular successes, profoundly shaped the industry. By the end of the 1960s, Choe supervised film making in all of North Korea as the Propaganda and Agitation Department film section head. In 1972, his responsibilities covered other forms of North Korean propaganda as well after he was made the vice director of the Department.

In 1978, Kim had South Korea's famous director-actress couple Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee abducted to North Korea. Choe was tasked with aiding them to make films for North Korea. After Shin and Choi escaped in 1986 on a business trip in Vienna under Choe's watch, he was demoted. Kim Jong-il's trust in Choe would survive despite numerous incidents leading to the latter's dismissal from his posts. All in all, Choe has been sacked five times from the Propaganda and Agitation Department: first in 1969, then in 1977 as part of purges, in 1986 after the Vienna affair, in 1993, and finally 2010. He served as the country's Minister of Culture between 2003 and 2006. He finally became the head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department in 2009, but was replaced the following year. He remains a delegate to the Supreme People's Assembly.

Choe remained part of Kim's inner circle until the latter's death in 2011. Choe supported Kim's youngest son, Kim Jong-un's, ascension to the leadership of the country at a time when he was still an uncertain heir.

Early and personal life

Choe Ik-gyu was born on 26 February 1934 to a poor family in Hwadae County,{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}}{{sfn|Choe Ik-gyu. North Korea Leadership Watch|2009|p=1}} North Hamgyong Province, Korea.{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}} Choe graduated with a baccalaureate from the department of Russian literature of Kim Hyong-jik Teachers' College in 1954,{{sfn|Choe Ik-gyu. North Korea Leadership Watch|2009|p=1}}{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}} and briefly became a lecturer of Russian at Kim Il-sung University's Pyongyang Labor Academy that same year.{{sfn|Choe Ik-gyu. North Korea Leadership Watch|2009|p=1}} Choe also studied in the Soviet Union and graduated from the Red Flag Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang, at some point.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=51}}[2]

Choe is married and has a son and three daughters. His eldest daughter Choe Il-sim is an aspiring scenario writer, having written scripts for the five-part movie series The Country I Saw (1988–).{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=186}}[3]

Career

Choe began working at the Korea Film Studio,{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=51}} first as a deputy film director in 1955 and then as an independent director.{{sfn|Choe Ik-gyu. North Korea Leadership Watch|2009|p=1}}{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}} He became the head of the studio in 1956 at the age of just 22.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=51}} As a filmmaker, he was largely self-taught but aspiring.{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}} In addition to his formal education in arts, he now had much experience with the Stalinist model of making films in particular.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=61}} Choe's breakthrough was the 1963 film A Garden Zinnia.{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}}

In 1968, Kim Jong-il, the country's future leader, took control of the country's film industry. Kim lacked experience in the field and so he teamed up with Choe,{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=60}} who was much experienced by this time and was "[a]rguably the single North Korean most knowledgeable about film, other than Kim".{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=51}} Choe became Kim's closest partner in his activities related to film;{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=60}} his "film tutor". Their collaborations became immensely popular, Choe directing and Kim producing films that would become known as "Immortal Classics" and People's Prize winners.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=61}}[4]

The first film Choe and Kim made together was Sea of Blood (1968),{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=61}}[5] followed by Five Guerilla Brothers the same year. By the end of the decade, Choe had been appointed as a supervisor of the film industry section of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}}

In 1972, Choe and Kim released The Flower Girl,{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=61}} The film augmented Choe's position as Kim's close confidant, making him responsible for propaganda spectacles beyond film.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=62}} Choe was promoted as the vice director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department and elected a member of parliament in the fifth Supreme People's Assembly.{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}} Choe was now in charge of events like Day of the Sun celebrations and Liberation Day marches. He developed mass games that would evolve into the Arirang Festival,{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=62}} the organizing of which he is still overseeing.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=310}} Choe would also give artistic guidance to Korean revolutionary operas and plays.{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}} For instance, he had directed an operatic adaption of Sea of Blood in 1971.[6] Choe and Kim's relationship became a close and long one. Choe would be personally involved in the making of many more films and supervising the production of others, such as multi-part The Star of Korea (1980–1987).{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}}

Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee

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|quote = Deuputy Director Choe is the right person to help bring about change in our film industry. He is well versed in motion pictures. He is the best man for this work... But, as you can see, Deputy Director Choe can't do it all by himself.
|author = Kim Jong-il
|source = explaining to Shin Sang-ok why he had been abducted, on a secret tape recorded by Shin{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=241}}
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Choe Ik-gyu played a role in the abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee, a famous South Korean director-actress couple.{{sfn|Choe Ik-gyu. North Korea Leadership Watch|2009|p=2}}

In a secret tape recorded by Shin and Choi, Kim Jong-il is heard confiding to the couple that he decided to kidnap them on the advice of Choe who considered Shin the best director of South Korea.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=235}}

After years of separation,{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=192}} when Shin and Choi were re-united by their captor, Kim Jong-il, on 6 March 1983,{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=202}} Choe was present. He would work with Shin from that point on to direct movies for Kim Jong-il.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=215}} He would pass on messages between Kim, Shin and Choi; the latter two rarely met Kim in person.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=273}}

First, Choe accompanied Shin and Choi on a trip from Pyongyang to Moscow, East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|pp=244–245}} The purpose of the trip was to scout for locations for the first film Shin had agreed to make for Kim Jong-il: An Emissary of No Return.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=245}} Choe was discontent with the project. He had been an acclaimed film director in his own right, but now he had to mind his South Korean counterpart.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=249}} Both Shin and Choi disliked Choe.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=273}} Choe resorted to criticizing Shin's directing in front of the crew.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=249}} Shin gained back control of the project by threatening to report to Kim Jong-il about Choe's behavior.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=250}} The film was finished and would be played at the London Film Festival and Shin was to attend.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=264}} Shin contemplated escaping there, but Choe and an entourage of bodyguards had traveled to London in advance.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=265}}

After Shin and Choi had managed to escape in Vienna, Choe was demoted from his position in the Propaganda and Agitation Department. He was sent into the countryside, his exact whereabouts unknown for years.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=303}}

Return to politics

Choe Ik-gyu was allowed to return as the vice director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department in 1988.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=310}} He assumed full control of the theater and operatic fields. That year, he was involved in making The Life of Chunhyang, an acclaimed folk opera. Choe guided performers "as if he were a stage director". Beginning with the early 1990s, Choe – credited under his pseudonym Choe Sang-geun – produced The Nation and Destiny. Choe produced, directed and wrote scenarios throughout the production of the 50-part film series, which Kim Jong-il considered the last work made under his personal guidance. Choe briefly fell out of public life in 1993 when he was dismissed from his Propaganda and Agitation Department post again. Even during this period, Kim Jong-il allowed him to travel to Germany to treat his health problems, which reflects the amount of trust Kim had in Choe.{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=186}} All in all, Choe has been dismissed four times from the Propaganda and Agitation Department.{{sfn|Choe Ik-gyu. North Korea Leadership Watch|2009|p=1}}

Choe became the Minister of Culture in September 2003 but retired temporarily some two years later because of diabetes and other chronic health issues.[7] He relinquished the position in 2006.{{sfn|Choe Ik-gyu. North Korea Leadership Watch|2009|p=2}} Choe was elected to the 12th Supreme People's Assembly on 8 March 2009,[7] representing Electoral District #73.{{sfn|Choe Ik-gyu. North Korea Leadership Watch|2009|p=2}} He finally became the head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department in 2009. As the director of the Department,{{sfn|Choe Ik-gyu. North Korea Leadership Watch|2009|p=2}} Choe was one of North Korea's propaganda chiefs.[8] He was replaced by Kang Nung-su in early February 2010 for unknown reasons.[9]

Choe was often seen accompanying Kim Jong-il on formal occasions until the latter's death in 2011.{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=61}} When traveling outside North Korea, Choe uses the name Choe Sang-geun.{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}} Such was the case for instance when he visited Seoul in South Korea in 2000 in the capacity of the counsel to the National Orchestra of North Korea.{{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=170}}

Succession of Kim Jong-un

Choe was among those who vouched for the succession of Kim Jong-un at a time when his ascension to power remained uncertain.[10]

In addition to Kim Jong-il, Choe would aide Kim's third wife Ko Yong-hui, and Jang Song-thaek.[7]

Paul Fischer, the author of A Kim Jong-Il Production, assesses that "[t]he modern North Korean state, which is a production, a display performance of its own, owes as much to Choe Ik-Gyu's taste and talents as it does to Kim Jong-Il."{{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=62}}

Filmography

  • A Garden Zinnia (1963){{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}}
  • Sea of Blood (1968)[5]
  • Five Guerilla Brothers (1968){{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=185}}
  • The Flower Girl (1972){{sfn|Fischer|2016|p=61}}

Opera

  • Sea of Blood (1971)[6]
  • The Life of Chunhyang (1988){{sfn|North Korea Handbook|2002|p=186}}

See also

{{Portal|North Korea|Film}}
  • Cabinet of North Korea
  • Culture of North Korea
  • Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
  • Politics of North Korea
  • Cinema of North Korea
  • Propaganda in North Korea
  • List of North Korean films

References

1. ^{{cite book|title=Vantage Point|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ae6AAAAIAAJ|volume=5|year=1982|publisher=Naewoe Press|location=Seoul|oclc=29800060|page=24}}
2. ^{{Cite web | title = Sources: Kim chooses third son as heir | author = Jeong Yong-soo | work = Korea JoongAng Daily | date = 2 June 2009 | accessdate = 18 December 2017 | url = http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2905585 }}
3. ^{{Cite web | title = 'The Country I Saw,' or 'How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love North Korea's Bomb (Almost)' | last = Lewis | first = Jeffery | work = 38 North | date = 30 August 2012 | accessdate = 19 December 2017 | url = http://www.38north.org/2012/08/jlewis083012/ | publisher =The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies }}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Schönherr|first=Johannes|title=North Korean Cinema: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6n0itIPmakC&pg=PA47|year=2012|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson|isbn=978-0-7864-6526-2|page=47}}
5. ^{{cite book|last1=Yoon|first1=Keumsil Kim|last2=Williams|first2=Bruce|title=Two Lenses on the Korean Ethos: Key Cultural Concepts and Their Appearance in Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQkyBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA105|year=2015|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson|isbn=978-0-7864-9682-2|page=105}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Dayez-Burgeon|first=Pascal|title=Histoire de la Corée: Des origines à nos jours|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xpdSCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT187|year=2012|publisher=Tallandier|location=Paris|isbn=978-2-84734-897-2|page=187|language=fr}}
7. ^{{Cite journal| title = Choe Ik-gyu Named to Key Post of Workers' Party | journal = North Korea Newsletter | number = 47 | publisher = Yonhap News Agency | date = 26 March 2009 | accessdate = 18 December 2017 | url = http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2009/03/25/85/0401000000AEN20090325004500325F.HTML }}
8. ^{{Cite web | title = 'Ruthless' youngest son to succeed Kim Jong-il | last = Moore | first = Malcolm | work = Irish Independent | date = 3 June 2009 | accessdate = 19 December 2017 | url = https://www.independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/ruthless-youngest-son-to-succeed-kim-jongil-26540824.html }}
9. ^{{Cite web | title = Personnel Shuffles in the first half of 2010 | work = North Korea Leadership Watch | date = 4 June 2010 | accessdate = 19 December 2017 | url = http://www.nkleadershipwatch.org/2010/06/04/personnel-shuffles-in-the-first-half-of-2010/}}
10. ^{{cite book|last=Gause|first=Ken E.|title=North Korea under Kim Chong-il: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r7xBIaMvveYC&pg=PA219|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara|isbn=978-0-313-38176-8|page=219}}

Works cited

  • {{cite book|ref=harv|last=Fischer|first=Paul|title=A Kim Jong-Il Production: Kidnap, Torture, Murder... Making Movies North Korean-Style|year=2016|publisher=Penguin Books|location=London|isbn=978-0-241-97000-3}}
  • {{cite book|title=North Korea Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JIlh9nNeadMC&pg=PA185|year=2002|publisher=Yonhap News Agency|location=Seoul|isbn=978-0-7656-3523-5|ref={{harvid|North Korea Handbook|2002}}}}
  • {{Cite book | title = Choe Ik-gyu | publisher = North Korea Leadership Watch | date = October 2009 | accessdate = 19 December 2017 | url = https://nkleadershipwatch.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/choikgyu.pdf | ref = {{SfnRef|Choe Ik-gyu. North Korea Leadership Watch|2009}}}}

External links

  • Profile at the Ministry of Unification {{ko icon}}
  • {{IMDb name | id= nm0158758 }}
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