{"id":47356,"date":"2022-08-11T18:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T09:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/seoul-phase-out-parasite-semi-basement-flats-storm-deaths"},"modified":"2022-08-11T18:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T09:30:01","slug":"seoul-to-phase-out-parasite-style-semi-basement-flats-after-storm-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47356","title":{"rendered":"Seoul to phase out Parasite-style semi-basement flats after storm deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Properties seen in Oscar-winning film to be curbed after three people drown in South Korean capital<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Seoul will phase out semi-basement flats after three people drowned inside one of the cramped properties during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/09\/south-korea-flood-2022-weather-record-rain-seoul\">record rainfall<\/a> in the South Korean capital this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Banjiha<\/em>, which gained global recognition in the 2020 Oscar-winning film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/feb\/10\/parasite-first-foreign-language-film-to-win-best-picture-oscar\">Parasite<\/a>, are usually occupied by people on low incomes and have come to symbolise the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/feb\/16\/parasite-film-oscars-bong-joon-ho-seoul-rich-poor-south-korea\">growing inequality<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a>, Asia\u2019s fourth-biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/seoul-phase-out-parasite-semi-basement-flats-storm-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Properties seen in Oscar-winning film to be curbed after three people drown in South Korean capitalAuthorities in Seoul will phase out semi-basement flats after three people drowned inside one of the cramped properties during record rainfall in the Sou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47357,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47356\/revisions\/47357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}