Rina
Rina is a virtual human created by Metaverse Entertainment (a Netmarble F&C subsidiary), first appearing 25 October 2021, presented as a 22-year-old digital girl from Seoul who likes fashion, music, songwriting, travel and DJing. She is managed by talent agency Sublime. In January 2024 Korean Air named her an honorary flight attendant and used her in its in-flight safety video and a virtual Safety Lounge; Korean netizens reacted with mixed views. VirtualHumans.org lists her as inactive.
- TikTok Followers
- 116.7K
- IG Followers
- 23.65K
- Since
- 2021


- Last updated
- 14 October 2026
- Nature
- AI persona
- Niche
- Fashion
- Style
- Photorealistic
- Debut
- 2021
- Origin
- Seoul, South Korea
- Created by
- Metaverse Entertainment
Summary
Rina is a virtual human created by Metaverse Entertainment (a Netmarble F&C subsidiary), first appearing 25 October 2021, presented as a 22-year-old digital girl from Seoul who likes fashion, music, songwriting, travel and DJing. She is managed by talent agency Sublime. In January 2024 Korean Air named her an honorary flight attendant and used her in its in-flight safety video and a virtual Safety Lounge; Korean netizens reacted with mixed views. VirtualHumans.org lists her as inactive.
Is Rina AI?
Yes. Rina is a computer-generated virtual human created by Metaverse Entertainment, a Netmarble F&C subsidiary, and managed by the agency Sublime; no human performer is named behind her.
Every source that describes Rina treats her as a made character, not a person. Airline Ratings reports that she and the virtual group MAVE are both creations of Metaverse Entertainment of Netmarble F&C, and KoreaProductPost describes her as a virtual human introduced jointly by Korean Air and Metaverse Entertainment. Her own Instagram bio, as quoted by VirtualHumans.org, calls her a "digital girl from Seoul" and credits META ENT and SUBLIME, so she is not hiding what she is.
None of the pages read names a human model, actor or voice performer behind her, so this does not fit the hybrid category. The honest gap is that the sources also do not say how she is produced (how much is full 3D rendering versus a filmed body or motion capture) or who voices her. The evidence supports AI persona with a studio behind her, and a performer simply is not mentioned.
She is also dormant: VirtualHumans.org lists her as inactive, and the newest posts the research read date from late 2023 and January 2024, around her Korean Air safety-video campaign. Platform AI labels were not recorded, so the verdict rests on the studio and press statements rather than on a TikTok or Instagram tag.
Evidence
Airline Ratings reports that virtual human Rina and the virtual girl group MAVE are both creations of Metaverse Entertainment of Netmarble F&C.
airlineratings.comKoreaProductPost says Korean Air and Metaverse Entertainment together introduced the virtual human Rina, who serves as an honorary flight attendant in the airline's safety videos.
koreaproductpost.comVirtualHumans.org quotes her Instagram bio, which calls her a "digital girl from Seoul" and credits META ENT and SUBLIME, and lists her as inactive or discontinued.
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Assessed 14 October 2026
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TikTok 117k · Instagram 24k
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