Director Joon-ik Lee had retired briefly from the local film industry following the lackluster commercial performance of his previous effort Pyeong-yang-seong (2011). He returned two years later with So-won (2013), casting top actor Sol Kyung-gu in one of the lead roles. Lee said he wanted to "make a happy movie that begins with a tragedy. With this heartbreaking material, I wanted to make the film as happy as possible. I am going to present a human drama where hope blooms at the edge of unhappiness and desperation, after a series of ordeals and hardships." He maintained that he made the film to "encourage Na-young and other victims of sex crimes," and that instead of other films with a similar subject matter that focus on sensationalist aspects, like the crime itself, So-won (2013) is about "what happens after, and is more about showing how life is good and worth living, emphasizing how the community rallied around the victim."

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