Like a scene from 'Parasite': Floods lay bare social disparity in South Korea

FILE PHOTO: South Korean soldiers clean up debris from a street that had been submerged by torrential rain in Seoul, South Korea, August 10, 2022. Yonhap/via REUTERS

SEOUL (Reuters) - Using a plastic bowl, Ha In-sik bailed water out of his lower ground apartment in the low-income housing district of Sillim in southwestern Seoul on Wednesday, where flooding caused by torrential rain forced his family to sleep at a nearby park.

The 50-year-old man, along with his wife and daughter had collected home appliances, furniture, books and even cutlery, and put them outside to see what was salvageable.