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. 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.
