Parasite is such a profoundly personal film for me, not just as a Korean, but as someone who at one point grew up in not-too-different circumstances than the ones in the film. Here comes a thread about representation, and how pride and poverty coexist in Korean culture. 1/13 My mother passed away when I was in elementary school. After that, my dad and I struggled emotionally and financially. There was a period of a couple years where we didn’t have anywhere to live, and so we lived with other families who were kind enough to take us in. 2/13