20 Things You Didn't Know About Parasite
2. The Sad Truth Behind South Korea’s Class Disparity
In Parasite, the infiltration of the Park family home by the Kims began when Ki-woo was hired to be Da-hye’s English tutor. This of course begins a sequence of events that begins the Kim family scam but what stands out the most is the decision to make Ki-woo a tutor.
Bong (who was once a math tutor in his youth) noted that such roles are the one of the sadly few ways that people from vastly different ends of the economic divide can interact in a prolonged manner without arousing fear or suspicion.
He further went on and added that the infiltration of the Park household represented some everyday people’s desire to be privy of strangers’ personal lives, especially those who are well-off.