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The Rich Roll Podcast · August 17, 2026 · 1h 50m

Lee Sung Jin On The Spirituality Of Netflix’s ‘Beef’

Emmy-winning Beef creator Lee Sung Jin joins Rich Roll to discuss the Jungian shadow work embedded in the hit series. He shares how the specificity of his characters creates universal resonance, recounts the worst year of his life and the pivotal scene it produced, and reveals the name he lived under for twenty-five years before reclaiming his identity. The conversation explores how personal evolution is always within reach — we just get in our own way.

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Preview

Lee describes Beef as built on a foundation of Jungian shadow work — the characters' suppressed darkness drives the entire narrative.
Specificity Creates Universality
Lee explains that the more specific and personal he makes a character, the more universal the audience's connection becomes.

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