MOVIES - Feb. 10, 1988

Four unidentified South Korean directors are locked in a bidding war for the rights to the story of Kim Hyon-hui, the self-confessed North Korean agent who says she planted explosives aboard a South Korean airliner that crashed last November, killing 115 people. Reuters reported that public opinion in Seoul has tended to absolve the contrite Kim of responsibility for the bombing so whichever film maker gets the Kim story seems destined to have domestic a blockbuster on his hands: an anti-Communist theme almost certain to please the South Korean government combined with a human drama with which the public is already familiar.