Seoul moves to ban ‘Parasite-style’ basement flats as historic floods reveal social disparity | South China Morning Post

After at least four people drowned in basement homes during the worst storm to lash Seoul in more than a century, the South Korean capital has announced plans to phase out the dwellings that have come to symbolise yawning inequality since one was featured in the Oscar-winning Korean film Parasite. A government state…

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