![]() ![]() ![]() Often small, dark and prone to mold during the humid summer, banjihas gained global notoriety following the release of Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning 2019 movie “Parasite,” which followed a fictional family’s desperate attempt to escape poverty. In Seoul’s notoriously expensive housing market, these apartments are some of the most affordable options available – meaning they’re mostly inhabited by young people and those on low incomes. The family lived in a banjiha – a half-underground apartment, typically several steps below street level. On Monday night, torrential rain – the city’s heaviest in more than 100 years – caused severe flooding in many low-lying neighborhoods south of the Han River, sweeping cars away and forcing hundreds to evacuate. Floodwaters over a parking lot and pedestrian area, which were submerged by the burst banks of the Han River in Seoul on August 10. ![]()
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