LOS ANGELES, April 16 -- After winning awards for his groundbreaking dark comedy, Beef, creator Lee Sung Jing looked long and hard for the premise for a second season, but nothing seemed to work.

Then a dispute in his own neighbourhood showed him the dramatic potential of generational conflict.

"The incident itself wasn't that interesting, but it was everyone's reactions to it," Lee told a press conference about his Netflix series.

While younger friends reacted with alarm to the fight, those over 40 dismissed it, he said.

"Gen Z peers... were all kind of like aghast, clutching their pearls, being like, 'did you call 911?' 'Is everyone okay?'

"Whereas my millennial and Gen X peers were like: 'Big deal.' That juxtaposition, I thought, ...