| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kang-ho Song | ... | Ki Taek (as Song Kang Ho) | |
| Sun-kyun Lee | ... | Dong Ik (as Lee Sun Kyun) | |
| Yeo-jeong Cho | ... | Yeon Kyo (as Cho Yeo Jeong) | |
| Woo-sik Choi | ... | Ki Woo (as Choi Woo Shik) | |
| So-dam Park | ... | Ki Jung (as Park So Dam) | |
| Lee Jeong-eun | ... | Moon Gwang (as Lee Jung Eun) | |
| Hye-jin Jang | ... | Chung Sook (as Chang Hyae Jin) | |
| Myeong-hoon Park | ... | Geun Se (as Park Myeong Hoon) | |
| Ji-so Jung | ... | Da Hye (as Jung Ziso) | |
| Hyun-jun Jung | ... | Da Song (as Jung Hyeon Jun) | |
| Keun-rok Park | ... | Driver Yoon (as Park Keun Rok) | |
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Esuz Jeong | ... | CEO of Pizza Place (as Jeung Esuh) |
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Jae-myeong Jo | ... | CEO's Brother of Pizza Place |
| Ik-han Jung | ... | Neighbor (as Jung Ik Han) | |
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Kyu-baek Kim | ... | Drunk Person 1 |
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. Without even knowing it, they, especially Mr. and Mrs. Kim, literally smell of poverty. Often as a collective, they perpetrate minor scams to get by, and even when they have jobs, they do the minimum work required. Ki-woo is the one who has dreams of getting out of poverty by one day going to university. 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. 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. While Mr. and Mrs. Park ... Written by Huggo
The most original film of 2019 and it is wickedly funny and darkly disturbing all at the same time. The narrative and the actors were excellent. One of the better endings of a movie in quite a while. Class warfare at its best.