- Forced to make propaganda films for Kim Jong-Il.
- Simon Sheen was forced to work for North Korea as a movie producer, but he escaped to the U.S. embassy while in Vienna, Austria for a movie meeting and came to America.
- Escaped with his ex-wife in 1986.
- Produced 68 films with his actress wife 'Choi Un-hee' during their marriage.
- Was married to a famous Korean Actress who was kidnapped along with him by the North Koreans and forced to work there.
- Soviet Union took credit of movies released after his escape.
- Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994
- Reunited with his wife a few years after their divorce, but they never remarried.
- He made 17 movies in North Korea and 1 documentary about Kim Jong Il during the 80s. But only 5 of them he was credited because they were released before his escape from North Korea, the others were released after or still in production. The other directors are either pseudonyms or replaced directors.
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