“Hello. My name is Park So Yeon and I am the ambassador for the North Korean Human Rights International Film Festival. We would like to ask you to show a lot of interest in the film festival and hope to see many of you there. Even if everybody takes just a small amount of interest in the situation in North Korea, that in itself will become a source of enormous strength. Please think of the precious children of North Korea.”

The Daily NK met actress and ambassador for the North Korea Human Rights International Film Festival Park So Yeon at a café outside Deoksu Palace in Seoul a few days ago as she was preparing for the start of the event this Thursday, to talk about the festival and her role as a starving woman in one of the main films of the event, Winter Butterfly.