#Parasite city vs driver#

When the Park's limo driver takes her home, Ki-jung leaves her underwear in the car in order to get him fired: she then suggests her 'Uncle' as the new driver - who is really Ki-taek. Ki-woo introduces them to Ki-jung, who forges documents for herself and goes by 'Jessica,' and she too begins making money hand over fist. Da-song had a traumatic incident where he saw a 'ghost' in the house and had a seizure and has been needing help with his art. Park pays him an exorbitant amount of money and mentions they need an art tutor for Da-song. Ki-woo realizes he needs to flirt with Da-hye to get the job, and he does - Mrs. Park (Choi Yeo-jeong), and their children, teenage daughter Da-hye and young son Da-song. Park (Lee Sun-kyun), his scatterbrained wife Mrs. Ki-woo interviews at the very wealthy Park family where he meets Mr. Ki-woo knows he isn't qualified since he isn't in college, but Min-hyuk promises to vouch for him, and so he agrees and has Ki-jung forge credentials for him to take to his interview. He wants Ki-woo to be her tutor, knowing he will watch over her so that Min-hyuk can propose to her once she graduates high school. He is leaving to study abroad but is in love with the daughter, and knows that any of the other university boys would steal her away.

He then tells Ki-woo that he has been tutoring the teenage daughter of a very wealthy family. Ki-woo's wealthy friend Min-hyuk pays the family a visit, giving them a gift - a rock that is supposed to bring those who have it wealth and prosperity.

They make ends meet by doing menial tasks such as folding pizza boxes - and even then, get criticized by the pizza employees for messing up the boxes.

The family lives in a garden unit where they struggle finding a Wi-Fi signal to sneak into in order to get access to the Internet to watch TV, get fumigated on, and have to watch men urinating in the alley outside their home. Ki-woo Kim (Choi Woo-Shik) is a young man living in poverty in the slums of a nameless South Korean city with his family - father Ki-taek Kim (Song Kang-ho), mother Chung-sook Kim (Jang Hye-jin), and sister Ki-jung (Park So-dam).The synopsis below may give away important plot points. The question then becomes how far the Kims can take this scam in their quest to become their version of the Parks. The most difficult to get rid of may be Moon-gwang, the Parks' housekeeper who literally came with the house - she Namgoong's housekeeper when he lived there - and thus knows all the little nooks and crannies of it better than the Parks themselves. In Ki-woo also falling for Da-hye, he begins to envision himself in that house, and thus the Kims as a collective start a plan for all the Kims, like Ki-jung using assumed names, to replace existing servants in the Parks' employ in orchestrating reasons for them to be fired.

#Parasite city vs professional#

Park is looking for an art therapist for the Parks' adolescent son, Da-song, Ki-woo quickly recommending his professional art therapist friend 'Jessica', really Ki-jung who he knows can pull off the scam in being the easiest liar of the four Kims. In getting the job, Ki-woo further learns that Mrs. Park has a flighty, simpleminded mentality and temperament, which Min tells Ki-woo to feel comfortable in lying to her about his education to get the job. The Parks are a wealthy family who for four years have lived in their modernistic house designed by and the former residence of famed architect Namgoong. Despite not having that university education, Ki-woo is chosen by his university student friend Min, who is leaving to go to school, to take over his tutoring job to Park Da-hye, who Min plans to date once he returns to Seoul and she herself is in university. Ki-woo is the one who has dreams of getting out of poverty by one day going to university. Often as a collective, they perpetrate minor scams to get by, and even when they have jobs, they do the minimum work required. Without even knowing it, they, especially Mr. The Kims - mother and father Chung-sook and Ki-taek, and their young adult offspring, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jung - are a poor family living in a shabby and cramped half basement apartment in a busy lower working class commercial district of Seoul. Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.