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.^[1] The first season was released on April 11, 2019.

Persona
Promotional poster
Hangul	페르소나
Revised Romanization	Pereusona
Genre	Anthology series
Created by	Yoon Jong-shin
Written by	Lee Kyoung-mi Yim Pil-sung Jeon Go-woon Kim Jong-kwan
Directed by	Lee Kyoung-mi Yim Pil-sung Jeon Go-woon Kim Jong-kwan
Starring	Lee Ji-eun
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	4
Production
Running time	19–27 minutes
Production companies	Mystic Story Kirin Productions
Original release
Network	Netflix
Release	April 11, 2019 (2019-04-11)

Plot

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

Cast

Season 1

Main

• Lee Ji-eun^[2] 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)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	1	"Love Set"	Lee Kyoung-mi	Lee Kyoung-mi	April 11, 2019 (2019-04-11)
2	2	"Collector"	Yim Pil-sung	Yim Pil-sung	April 11, 2019 (2019-04-11)
3	3	"Kiss Burn"	Jeon Go-woon	Jeon Go-woon	April 11, 2019 (2019-04-11)
4	4	"Walking at Night"	Kim Jong-kwan	Kim Jong-kwan	April 11, 2019 (2019-04-11)

Release

The first season was originally set to be released on Netflix on April 5, 2019^[3][4] but the release was postponed to April 11 out of respect for the victims of the Gangwon Province Fire.^[5][6]

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.^[7]

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.^[8][9][10]

Reception

Persona was the sixth most popular program on Netflix in Korea in 2019.^[11]