For many in South Korea, “Parasite” brought back memories of months or years spent in banjiha dwellings — the bleakness, the critters, the moldy smell.
is a space with a peculiar connotation.... It’s undeniably underground, and yet you want to believe it’s above ground,” Bongafter the film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. “There’s also the fear that if you sink any lower, you may go completely underground.”
“Banjiha is a unique space. It’s undeniably underground, and yet you want to believe it’s above ground.”More than 36,000 South Koreans live in semi-basement homes, according to the most recent survey conducted in 2015, the vast majority of them in the greater Seoul metropolitan area. Many were built in the 1970s as bunkers for a potential North Korean attack and later haphazardly modified as stand-alone rental units to meet a surging demand for housing.
Choi Hyun-jung, 34, has been living in a semi-basement home with her sister since 2012 in the city of Incheon, about an hour west of Seoul. With their modest budget, every unit they looked at as an option was a semi-basement unit.
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