Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of I Heart Radio and

Grim and Mild. Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book,

all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities. For most people, watching movies is an escape. It's easy to forget your worries watching Luke Skywalker blow up the death star or Lauren Bacall

confess her love to Humphrey Bogart. But for South Korean director Shingsang-Uuk

and movie star Choi Jungi the opposite was true. Films weren't an escape. They were a prison and their

tailor was future North Korean dictator Kim Jong- Ill. In the 1960s

Shin and Choi were South Korea's IT couple.

Choi was one of South Korea's biggest stars after the Korean War.

Her husband, Shin, was an acclaimed director who, along with Choi, founded one of the largest film studios in Korea.

From the mid-150s to the 1970s, they made dozens of movies that defined Korean post-war cinema.

But all was not perfect in Paradise and in the 1970s

Shin Studios was forced to shut down. In 1976, Shin and Choi's relationship fell

apart as well when Choi discovered Shin had

fathered two children with another woman. The IT couple decided to call it

quits. By 1978, Choi traveled to Hong Kong in the hopes that she could

direct the film there.

It had been hard for her to book roles after the very public divorce,

but a Hong Kong film company had offered her a job.

When Choi arrived, however, she discovered it was a ruse.

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