SEOUL, Feb 13 — From the houses to the noodles, South Korea’s Oscar winning movie Parasite tells its story of a suffocating class struggle through the sights and smells of Seoul. Parasite made history as the first non-English language movie to win the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, prompting...
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Much of the movie was shot on purpose-built sets, but both the Parks’ mansion and the Kims’ squalid “sub-basement” apartment were inspired by, and set, amid real neighbourhoods in the South Korean capital. Kim Kyung-soon, 73, who has operated the shop with her husband Lee for 45 years, said she opens the supermarket at around 8:30am, while he closes it down after midnight.
Ahyeon-dong sits in the shadow of newly built apartment towers, and the city has faced protests from some residents who fear losing their homes to redevelopment.had won at the Academy Awards he was so happy he could not sleep. As a throng of media gathered outside his shop, he wondered whether the film’s fame would change plans to eventually build new apartments there.
“There are 48 ambassadors living in the neighbourhood, so there is a whole separate squad of police officers in the area,” Chung said.
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