"'Parasite' Has a Hidden Backstory of Middle-Class Failure and Chicken Joints"

Foreign Policy:

so, with a couple of words, Bong implied an entire backstory for his basement dwellers: The patriarch once had a decent job and then started a chicken joint after being laid off. Then the chicken joint failed when five other people opened similar restaurants around them.

The words “king castella” hint that the Kim family’s woes were compounded with yet another entry into a heavily saturated market.The words “king castella” hint that the Kim family’s woes were compounded with yet another entry into a heavily saturated market. If running a fried chicken joint in Korea is akin to day trading, running a king castella joint is like day trading on margins