Persona (TV series)

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.

Plot

The series is separated into four segments: Love Set, Collector, Kiss Burn and Walking at Night.

Cast

Season 1

Main

• Lee Ji-eun as IU / Eun / Han-na / Ji-eun

"Love Set"

• Bae Doona as Doona
• Kim Tae-hoon as IU's father
• Pierce Conran as Pierce

"Collector"

• 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

"Kiss Burn"

• Shim Dal-gi as Hye-bok
• Lee Sung-wook as Jung-geun

"Walking at Night"

• Jung Joon-won as K

Episodes

Season 1 (2019)

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.

References

External links

• Persona on Netflix
• Persona at IMDb
• Persona at HanCinema