EXCLUSIVE: Parasite star Song Kang-Ho has signed on to the Season 2 cast of Netflix anthology series Beef in a recurring role, joining previously announced Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny and Youn Yuh-jung. 

In Season 2, a young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner. 

Details are being kept under wraps, but we hear Song will play the husband of Youn Yuh-jung’s character.

The first season of Beef starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, premiered in 2023 and went on to win a slew of awards including eight Emmy Awards, four Critics Choice Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Gotham Awards, two Film Independent Spirit Awards, two SAG Awards, as well as PGA, WGA and AFI Honors.

In the first season, Yeun and Wong play two strangers whose lives collide in a strange way after they’re involved in a road rage incident. The story is based off Lee’s personal experience with a road rage incident.

The upcoming installment will consist of eight 30-minutes episodes with Lee Sung Jin returning as creator, showrunner and executive producer. Yeun, Wong, Jake Schreier, Kitao Sakurai, Ethan Kuperberg, Anna Moench, Mulligan, Isaac, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny also executive produce. A24 is the studio.

Song became the first South Korean male actor to win best actor at Cannes, taking the 2023 award for his role in Broker, a Korean-language film directed by Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda. He starred as Ki Taek in 2020’s Best Picture Oscar winner Parasite. Earlier in his career, he appeared in the Bong Joon Ho-directed Memories of Murder.