Song Hye-rim (Korean: 성혜림; January â€" May ) was a North
Korean actress, best known for being the one-time favored mistress of
Kim Jong-il.Song was born in Changnyeong when Korea was under Imperial
Japanese rule. She entered Pyongyang Movie College in , but left the
following year to give birth to a daughter. She later re-enrolled and
graduated, having her film debut in . She became a popular actress in
the s, appearing in movies including OnjÅ ngryÅ ng (ì˜¨ì •ë ¹) and
Baek Il-hong (ë°±ì ¼í™ ).Most accounts of Song are drawn from the
memoirs of her sister, Song Hye-rang. Her former friend Kim Young-soon
published her memoir I Am Song Hye-rim's friend, and revealed that she
and her family were sent to a concentration camp for ten years after
she found out Hye-rim's secret (namely, that she was Kim Jong-il's
mistress, a fact that was hidden at the time even from Kim Il-sung),
which resulted in the death of her children and parents and her
husband being taken away and never seen again before she managed to
defect to South Korea in .
Korean actress, best known for being the one-time favored mistress of
Kim Jong-il.Song was born in Changnyeong when Korea was under Imperial
Japanese rule. She entered Pyongyang Movie College in , but left the
following year to give birth to a daughter. She later re-enrolled and
graduated, having her film debut in . She became a popular actress in
the s, appearing in movies including OnjÅ ngryÅ ng (ì˜¨ì •ë ¹) and
Baek Il-hong (ë°±ì ¼í™ ).Most accounts of Song are drawn from the
memoirs of her sister, Song Hye-rang. Her former friend Kim Young-soon
published her memoir I Am Song Hye-rim's friend, and revealed that she
and her family were sent to a concentration camp for ten years after
she found out Hye-rim's secret (namely, that she was Kim Jong-il's
mistress, a fact that was hidden at the time even from Kim Il-sung),
which resulted in the death of her children and parents and her
husband being taken away and never seen again before she managed to
defect to South Korea in .
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