Moo-Ryong Choi

South Korean actor , singer , voice actor and director, and the 13th member of the National Assembly. Her real name is Choi Han-ryeon.

actor He was known as Choi Min-soo 's father and was a top star who appeared in numerous movies and was a box office success . His son Choi Min-soo later became a star actor, but it is said that he could not match the high presence and status of Choi Mu-ryong during his prime. In short, a great actor who dominated the era. He is one of the first voice actors from the KBS Voice Actor Theater Association .

He is a voice actor and trained in theater, so his vocal skills are very good. If you look at her appearances on old broadcasts, her voice is so good that it makes the studio vibrate.

February 25, 1928 in the lunar calendar, Imjin-myeon, Paju-gun, Gyeonggi-do (current: Paju-si ) He was born as the only son among one son and three daughters in a wealthy family in Munsan- eup. His father was a shipowner who owned a ship and was a wholesaler who bought and sold grain, especially soybeans , across the Imjin River to mainland China .

In 1940, he graduated from the Imjin Public Simsang School , went to Kaesong Commercial School, and graduated in 1945. At that time, there was no sense of distance before the division , and at that time, the largest cities in Imjin -myeon, Paju -gun, were not Gyeongsung, but they went to school at Kaesong.

After graduating from Kaesong Commercial School, he joined the head of Chosun Commercial Bank with the recommendation of a Japanese teacher and worked as a banker . After 8.15 Liberation , he returned to his hometown after resignation in November of that year, and joined the Munsan Financial Union and prepared for college entrance exams . The following year , he entered the Kyungsung Law College in 1946 , and in 1947 , he participated in the protests regarding the national waves of the National University , and was tortured by the police .

Afterwards, he dropped out of Gyeongseong Law College and graduated from Chung-Ang University in 1948. He entered the law department and founded a theater group, and at the time, the Seoul Metropolitan Government Jung-gu He debuted as a theater actor by performing the play <Hamlet> at a construction center in Myeong-dong . He made a successful debut through a performance of Hamlet. In the same year, he debuted as a voice actor by joining the Seoul Central Broadcasting Station as part of the second batch of the Broadcast Theater Research Institute.

In the days of the play, the swan belonged to the extreme, and Kang Hyo -sil , the daughter of the actress Jeon -ok , who ran the extreme, is Choi Min -soo's mother . Kang Hyo -sil went to Pyongyang following his father, Kang Hong -sik , after his parents divorced , and spent their childhood under the stepmother of Japanese. Later, during the Korean War , he reunited with his mother's mother, who broke up as a child. However, the mother and daughter were away for a long time, and they met again and had no choice but to be awkward, and there was a conflict naturally, and then became close to Choi Moo -ryong, who was acting together at the mother's extreme. Jeon -ok cared and cared for his junior Choi Moo -ryong, but as a son -in -law, Choi Moo -ryong was not coveted, and he opposed Choi Moo -ryong and Kang Hyo -sil. However, with the adultery of Choi Moo -ryong and Kim Ji -mi , Choi Moo -ryong and Kang Hyo -sil eventually divorce.

There is an interesting backstory to the wedding of Choi Mu-ryong and Kang Hyo-sil. Choi Mu-ryong and Kang Hyo-sil met and got married during the time of evacuation in Busan, and they had a wedding on board a ship borrowed from a U.S. military ship. At the time, at weddings, a congratulatory speech was always given by one of the groom's close friends who was good at speaking, mixing jokes to make the guests laugh and blessing the future of the bride and groom. However, at the wedding of Choi Mu-ryong and Kang Hyo-sil, a friend from Choi Mu-ryong's hometown gave the congratulatory speech. However, they did not know that the congratulatory speech would end for an hour, and Kang Hyo-sil, who was feeling unwell at the time, became seasick due to the ship rocking left and right. Unable to endure the seasickness, she ended up fainting. Fortunately, the groom was able to quickly support the bride and she was safe, but it is said that the wedding ended in a very funny way.

After graduating from Chung-Ang University in 1952, he made his debut in the film industry through director Lee Man-heung's film <Turd Stream> in 1954, leaving a strong impression with his unique acting and voice, and grew into a major star in the film industry along with Heo Jang-gang , Lee Ye-chun , and Dok Go-seong . Coincidentally, the sons of the three in front are following in their father's footsteps and pursuing the path of becoming actors. They are the brothers Heo Gi - ho and Heo Jun-ho , Lee Deok-hwa , and Dokgo Youngjae , respectively . He even served as director, starting with the 1965 film <Blooming September Mountain>. He served as vice-chairman of the Acting Subcommittee of the Korean Film Association from 1972 to 1976 and as chairman from 1982 to 1985.

According to the memoirs of veteran actor Eom Aing-ran , he was quite a gentleman and had good manners. It is said that when she encountered mud on the road, she covered it with her outer garment so that the actress could not step on it. Shin Seong- il also explains that in such cases, he shouts, ‘Hey, run and cross!’

It is said that he was beaten by Im Hwa- soo along with other movie stars such as Kim Seung - ho , Choi Nam-hyun , Kim Jin-gyu , and Park Am. This part was also depicted in the Yain period . The actor who played the role of young Choi Mu-ryong in The Age of the Wild is Jeong Jae-gon, who played Choi Woo in The Age of the Unmanned . In an article dated April 24, 1960, mentioning the arrest of Yoo Ji -gwang and Im Hwa-su, it is said that they were beaten by 4 or 5 members of the Dongdaemun faction at the anti-communist artists' office in Chungmuro ​​2-ga for having pro-communist ideology.

Since she has been married a total of three times, her family life is quite complicated. With his first wife Kang Hyo-sil, he had one son and three daughters (eldest daughter Choi Hyun-sook, second daughter Choi Ye-sook, third daughter Choi Yeon-sook, and eldest son Choi Min-su ), with his second wife Kim Ji-mi , he had one daughter (fourth daughter Choi Young-sook), and with his third wife Cha Geum-ja, he had one son and one daughter (second son Choi Jeong-woo and fifth daughter Choi Jin-kyung).

In 1962, he and Kim Ji-mi were arrested on charges of adultery. At this time, Choi Mu-ryong's wife is actress Kang Hyo-sil. Kang Hyo-sil's father was Kang Hong-sik , a film director who defected to North Korea , and it was revealed in 2011 through the testimony of North Korean defector Kim Young-sun to Open North Korea Broadcasting that he died in Yodeok concentration camp in 1971. The happy appearance of Choi Mu-ryong and Kim Ji-mi in handcuffs was a hot topic in the media at the time every day. It is shocking enough from today's perspective, but at the time it was truly a major scandal.

He eventually divorced Kang Hyo-sil in 1963 , and at this time, Kim Ji-mi paid the divorce alimony. It became a hot topic again when he paid 4 million won (3.3 million won in alimony + 700,000 won in debt), the highest alimony in Korea at the time. At this time, 4 million won was a very large amount of money. It is said that even when she divorced him six years later, Kim Ji-mi paid all of the divorce alimony. Considering that it was a time when it was difficult for a woman to have that much wealth on her own, and considering that it was a time when men were usually responsible for all divorce alimony, this shows how great Kim Ji-mi's wealth was.

For your information, Kang Hyo-sil was greatly hurt by Choi Mu-ryong's affair and divorce, and went through great emotional hardship, including attempting suicide several times. At the time, it was taken for granted that if a divorce occurred, the husband would take custody of the children, so Kang Hyo-sil was not able to raise Choi Min-soo herself. The mother and son reunited when Minsu Choi was in his second year of high school.

Kim Ji -mi recalls four marriages and divorce in an interview with Shin Dong -a in 2003 , and 'I lived with an old man, a young man, a talented man, but the man was not a big deal. All men are children, lack, and unstable. However, Choi Moo -ryong, who had a child with his children, is the most memorable. '

At the time of adultery, he had already had Choi Min -soo, a new son of a hundred days. Because of this complex family history, Choi Min -soo and Choi Moo -ryong had a rich relationship for quite some time.

Since his heyday, he has been releasing albums as a singer and has his own famous songs such as “Single Bridge” and “Dreams Disappearing” and has appeared on music stages .

In 1988, he was elected as a member of the National Assembly (Paju -gun, the Republican Republican Party → Democratic Liberal Party ) in the 13th general election with the President of the Republican Republic of Kim Jong -pil. In 1992, he was eliminated from the nomination ahead of the 14th National Assembly election, and since 1993, he was the director of the Korea Film Archive .

After serving as the chairman of the Woori Film Business Group since 1995, he fueled his will to act by appearing in the musical <This Is a Wandering Theater Company> and <Arirang> in 1998. November 11, 1999, Gyeonggi-do Bucheon city Won Mi-gu Joo-gong of Jungheung Village in the Middle East collapsed from a heart attack at his home in Seoul. Seodaemun-gu Sinchon-dong He was rushed to Severance Hospital , but eventually died at the age of 71 at 9:40 p.m. After his death, he was cremated at the Seoul Metropolitan Government Seungwha Center and was posthumously awarded the Cultural Merit Medal .

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