Persona (Korean: 페르소나) is a South Korean anthology television series starring Lee Ji-eun. It contains separate stories each directed by a different director. The first season was released on April 11, 2019.
Contents
Plot
The series is separated into four segments: Love Set, Collector, Kiss Burn and Walking at Night.
Cast
Season 1
Lee Ji-eun as IU / Eun / Han-na / Ji-eun
Bae Doona as Doona
Kim Tae-hoon as IU's father
Pierce Conran as Pierce
Park Hae-soo as Baek Jeong-u
Jung Ki-hoon as Eun's yoga friend
Bae So-young as Ji-soo
Jo Hyun-sub as Ji-soo's boyfriend
Andrew Royce Beasley as Eun's foreign friend
Mario Adrion as Eun's foreign friend
Shim Dal-gi as Hye-bok
Lee Sung-wook as Jung-geun
Jung Joon-won as K
Episodes
Release
The first season was originally set to be released on Netflix on April 5, 2019 but the release was postponed to April 11 out of respect for the victims of the Gangwon Province Fire.
The second season, Persona: Sulli, will be released as a feature film in the second half of 2023 and is divided into two parts: the first one, titled 4: Clean Island, stars Sulli, while the second one is a documentary/interview titled Dear Jinri. In particular, Dear Jinri will premiere at the 28th Busan International Film Festival.
Production
Mystic Story revealed on October 23, 2019, that they had decided to temporarily suspend the production of the second season as Sulli, who was cast as the main lead, was in the midst of filming the second out of five planned episodes for the series when she died.
Reception
Persona was the sixth most popular program on Netflix in Korea in 2019.
