Woo In-hee was a North Korean actress who reached stardom in the 1960s and 1970s. She married Yoo Hosun, a famed film director, but she was involved in affairs outside of her marriage. In the late 1970s, she became a secret mistress of Kim Jong-il. After Woo began an affair with another man, Kim had her publicly executed.
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Woo In-hee was a North Korean actress who reached stardom in the 1960s and 1970s. She married Yoo Hosun, a famed film director, but she was involved in affairs outside of her marriage. In the late 1970s, she became a secret mistress of Kim Jong-il. After Woo began an affair with another man, Kim had her publicly executed in front of 6,000 people. Until the South Korean TV drama Azalea Blooms, Woo’s life was not widely known in North Korea until the show was made public in 2011. The show portrays her life, and the events surrounding her death, as an inside story of North Korea’s dark past.
It is not known for certain when they began their courtship, other than it took place sometime in the late 70s. Kim and Woo had courted for years before Woo’s fall from grace, or that her ruin made it possible for Kim to initiate a relationship in exchange for allowing her to return to acting. In 1981, Woo was told she was free to go, but was instead taken to the Kang Kon Military Academy shooting grounds just north of Pyongyang. She was tied to a post and shot by 12 gunmen.
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