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Korean actor Song Kang-ho, will be joining the second-season cast of Beef, the award-winning Netflix anthology series. He will appear as a guest star alongside Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, and Youn Yuh-jung.
In 2019, Song starred as Kim Ki-taek in Parasite, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture the following year. The talented actor earlier appeared in Memories of Murder, a film also directed by Bong Joon Ho. In 2023, for his role in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker, Song became the first South Korean male to win the coveted best actor award at Cannes.
Eight 30-minute episodes will be presented In Season 2 of Beef. In its first season, which premiered in 2023, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong played two strangers whose lives intersect after a road-rage incident. The program was a critical success, winning many prestigious prizes, including eight Emmys, four Critics Choice awards, three Golden Globes, two SAG awards, among others. Yeun played the role of Danny Cho, a struggling contractor of Korean heritage and Wong played Amy Lau, a small business owner with both Chinese and Vietnamese roots. Other characters in season one included Joseph Lee as George Nakai, a sculptor of Japanese heritage who was Amy’s husband, and Patti Yasutake as George’s mother Fumi Nakai.
Under the aegis of A24 studio, the upcoming season will again see Lee Sung Jin as creator, showrunner, and one of the executive producers. In April 2023, he told Rolling Stone that he had planned the show to last three seasons: “There are a lot of ideas on my end to keep this story going. I think should we be blessed with a Season Two, there’s a lot of ways for Danny and Amy to continue. I have one really big general idea that I can’t really say yet, but I have three seasons mapped out in my head currently.”
No further information has been released about Song’s specific role in the series, or when it would be released.