[9][4] After graduating from college, Lee moved to Los Angeles and worked a variety of part-time jobs while writing scripts.
[4] He was inspired to create Beef by a road rage confrontation he experienced with a middle-aged white man in Los Angeles.
[10] "I thought there was something interesting there, how we’re all locked in our subjective world views, and we go around projecting a lot on the other person and not really seeing things for what they are," he said of the incident.
[11] He also served as director, executive producer and showrunner on the series, forced to remotely direct scenes for the season finale "with my face on an iPad" because of a COVID-19 infection.
[13] Lee wrote, directed and produced the music video for BTS leader RM's "Come Back to Me," a prerelease track from his second solo album Right Place, Wrong Person, released May 2024.