Actor

Song Kang-ho

South Korean actor and Bong Joon-ho's most frequent lead, from Memories of Murder to Parasite; he won Best Actor at Cannes for Broker. One essay so far.

Films covered

Parasite · 2019

Essays

The architecture of class in Parasite

Stairs, windows, sunlight and smell: how Bong Joon-ho builds a class system out of a house, then floods it.

Oct 2026