fossilized insects enhanced coloured stones Popular culture A large desk-sized suseok appears prominently in the 2019 Korean film Parasite where it is given as a cursed gift from one of the characters in the film to another. The suseok first appears to bring great fortune to the main character's immediate family, but the family then loses all of this fortune and is destroyed by their own greed and class conflict. In one scene it is used as a weapon to attack one of the main characters. It the end of the film, it is placed in a river to be forgotten. The film won the award for Best Picture at the 2019 Academy Awards that year, the first foreign film ever to do so. Standard reference work Soosuk, #72 in a series of books on Korean culture, Daewonsa Publishing Co, Ltd (Korea, 1989), (in Korean) See also Gongshi Suiseki Korean art Korean sculpture Korean culture References External links Bucheon Museum of Suseok at Bucheon.go.kr Korean art Korean sculpture Rock art in Asia