PARASITE Shooting Locations Turned into Tourist Attractions, Netizens Protest

Kapanlagi.com - Following the success of the Oscar-winning film PARASITE, the city of Seoul is busy promoting the locations used for shooting the film by Bong Joon Ho. These locations are the areas where the main cast of PARASITE live.

On February 10, 2020, the official Twitter account of the Seoul city government uploaded photos of the shooting locations for the film PARASITE. The post had a caption promoting these locations as tourist attractions that can be visited by tourists.

 

1. Rejection from Netizens

As reported by Kpopmap, some netizens consider this move disrespectful towards people living in the surrounding area. The filming location of the movie PARASITE is in an impoverished area.

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These netizens stated that they would be offended if they were local residents. Some even referred to the promotion of the area as a tourist location as an "exploitation of poverty."

2. Not Touching Poverty

PARASITE filming location © twitter/seoulmania

In addition, netizens also stated that the city of Seoul never mentioned poverty. The related parties only promote the area as a famous filming location, PARASITE.

In reality, in the movie PARASITE itself, viewers are presented with extreme conditions that show the huge gap between the rich and the poor. Despite being a developed country, there are still many people in South Korea who struggle with the increasingly limited job opportunities and soaring house prices.

(kpo/rsp)