South Korea to phase out basement apartments made famous by the movie 'Parasite' after three members of a family living in the low-income housing died after being trapped in their home by flooding.
The rains inundated Seoul and the country’s north from Monday to Wednesday, leaving at least 11 people dead, with eight still missing as of Thursday.
The mother, identified as Hong by her labor union, worked as a sales associate at a duty-free store an hour from her home. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and the Seoul mayor visited the family's home Tuesday, where plates and dolls belonging to the girl floated on muddy water, according to footage provided by the presidential office.
Pedestrians walk past debris outside shops at the historic Namseong market in the Gangnam district of Seoul this week.Around 200,000 people live in banjiha homes in Seoul, making up around 5 percent of residences in the capital, according to official data cited by the mayor's office. Existing city regulations passed in 2012 already banned the building of homes in basement areas, but around 40,000 banjiha homes have been built in the decade since, according to the mayor’s office.
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