The Australia Chapter (head: Lee Sook-jin) hosted the opening event of “North Korean Human Rights Week” at the Australian Technology Park located in Sydney on December 4 with the participation of around 350 invited personnel.

This day's opening event began with a performance by composer and performer Deborah Kim, a 1.5-generation Korean compatriot in Australia who created the “perceptive sound image,” the first “motion graphic janggu (hourglass-shaped drums) musical score” in the world. Joo Han-seul, who was presiding over this day's event, then introduced the activities of the Australia Chapter and explained the meaning of this event.

"The catalyst for resolving the issue of North Korean nuclear weapons or South-North unification is the improvement of human rights in North Korea; in particular, the issue of improving human rights in North Korea must be led by surrounding countries, the center of which is Australia," said Chapter Head Lee Sook-jin in her welcome address.

She went on to add that it will be an opportunity for Australian locals and second-generation compatriots to sympathize deeply with the gravity of the issue of human rights in North Korea through the movie The Wall introduced at the opening ceremony of the North Korean Human Rights Week.

The film The Wall, awarded the best human rights movie award at the Galway International Film Festival in Ireland and set to premiere worldwide in January 2017, was shown at the Australia North Korean Human Rights Week event. The director of this film, David Kinsella, introduced it as a "movie on freedom that enables everyone to determine what is right or wrong."

The North Korean Human Rights Week event was held in 4 Australian cities (Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane) through the screening of North Korean human rights films and lectures until December 10.

Meanwhile, this event was hosted by the Australia Chapter as part of the various efforts by the government of Australia to adopt the North Korean Human Rights Act and was sponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Australia and the Korean Consulate General in Sydney.