Persona (
Korean: 페르소나) is a South Korean
anthologystreaming 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.
Plot
The series is separated into four segments: Love Set, Collector, Kiss Burn and Walking at Night.
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]