Best-Picture-winner 'Parasite' highlights the deepening inequality that has young and poor South Koreans describing their lives as a hellish nightmare
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South Korea has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor among developed nations and is struggling to deal with decaying job markets, rocketing house prices, and a record-low birth rate as couples put off having babies while struggling with low pay and harsh work conditions.SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans are reveling in writer-director Bong Joon Ho's dark comic thriller, "Parasite," which won this year's Academy Awards for best film and best international feature.
South Korea's rapid emergence from the devastation of the 1950-53 Korean War also saw a bloody transition from dictatorship to democracy. Its association with neat smartphones and cars came amid a constant threat from nuclear North Korea. For every international success, there's also widespread worry that South Korea will forever be overshadowed by regional giants Russia, China and Japan.
K-pop has garnered a huge international following with an increasing number of fans coming from the United States. Bong was one of thousands of artists who were blacklisted and denied government funds under the rule of conservative former President Park Geun-hye for their allegedly critical views of her administration. Following protests by millions, Park was ousted from office in March 2017 and is now serving a decades-long prison term for corruption.
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