According to guangming network reports, as of 6 o'clock local time on the 12th, the rainstorm in South Korea has caused 13 deaths, and the number of people who are temporarily homeless due to house damage has risen to 1492. Among them, the death of a family of three living in the semi-basement of Seoul has caused a great sensation, reminiscent of the scene in the movie "Parasite".
"Parasite" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2020 and was directed by the well-known Korean director Bong Joon-ho. The film tells the story of a wealthy family living in a gorgeous mansion and a poor family living in a semi-basement.
It is said that art comes from life, and the dark, damp and smelly semi-basement in the movie is where 230,000 families live in Seoul. But few people know that this semi-basement is not only a humble building that is out of place with Seoul, but also a product of history.
In 1968, when tensions between the North and South of the Korean Peninsula were intensifying, the South Korean government required all newly built low-rise apartments to have basements for security reasons so that people could have a bunker in case of danger. At the time, it was illegal to rent out semi-basements.
However, in the 1980s, south Korean cities developed rapidly, and more and more people came to Seoul to work hard, resulting in a serious shortage of local living space. In desperation, the government was forced to allow the legal rental of semi-basements.
These semi-basements, unlike the basements, are completely out of sight, and half of the windows are exposed. But the basement should have all the problems, lack of light, damp and moldy, small space... In order to prevent the sewer from returning to the water, the toilet should be installed half a meter above the ground, and it is often tripped up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet.
If the sky is the best, such a house can barely be inhabited. But if you catch the heavy rain, it's all over. The rainy season in Seoul is in July and August every year, and if it rains for many consecutive days, the accumulated water will pour into the semi-basement and flood everything.
On the eve of the climax of "Parasite", such a picture is such a picture, in the rainstorm, the rainwater mixed with sewage flows into the semi-basement where the protagonist's family lives, and people can only show their heads in the water, and the daughter of the protagonist's family of four can only squat on the toilet and smoke. Rain is fair to humanity, but it ends up flooding the poor.
Supposedly, the semi-basement is in such poor condition that the rent should be cheap, but if it's located in Seoul, which is in a small area, it's a different matter.
According to the study, the rent for the semi-basement in Seoul is about 540,000 won per month, which is equivalent to about 2,800 yuan. The average office worker in the Tokyo metropolitan area earns about 2 million won a month, which is equivalent to a little more than 10,000 yuan. In other words, renting a semi-basement costs nearly 1/3 of the salary.
Normal apartments are more expensive, with an average monthly rent of up to 769,000 won. This is only rent, in South Korea, before renting a house, you need to pay a large deposit, similar to our deposit, but the deposit is generally one to pay three, and some of the security deposits in South Korea can reach ten times the rent. I don't have any savings in my hands, and I really can't afford to rent a house.
However, the semi-basement is not yet the worst residence in South Korea. People who often watch Korean dramas know that there is something called an examination hall in South Korea, which sounds like a training institution like New Oriental, but it is actually a single apartment rented out to test prep students, similar to the kind of cubicle room of several square meters, which only has a bed.
The rent of this examination hall ranges from 150,000 to 400,000 won, depending on the facilities and environment, which is equivalent to more than 700 to 2,000 yuan. South Korea has many internal volumes, not much to say, in order to change the fate of the only way to reincarnate, only to try to be admitted to civil servants, prosecutors, teachers and other compilation units, or Samsung, Lotte and other large companies.
From the perspective of population and job ratio, South Korea's inner volume is much higher than China's, many people are still preparing for the exam at the age of thirty, nibbling on the old for a while, and finally if they can be admitted, the whole family will burn high incense.
In addition to the young people who are preparing for the exam, many poor elderly people also live in the examination hall. They are either childless or abandoned by their children, left alone, and left to spend their old age in cubicles, where they die quietly.
When "Parasite" was popular all over the country, the semi-basement also received widespread attention. The Seoul government has earmarked 3.2 million won (less than 17,000 yuan) to help poor people living in semi-basements improve the environment, which is expected to help 1,500 families.
Today, innocent and suffering semi-basement residents are still scooping out buckets of water, and Lee Jae-yong, the head of Samsung who has been sentenced for committing crimes, has been pardoned by Yin Xiyue.
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