My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

For 500 years, the legendary nine-tailed fox is said to be trapped inside a painting. One stormy night, Cha Dae Woong hears a mysterious voice telling him to go near a painting of an eight-tailed fox. The voice commands him to draw another tail on the fox. The hesitant young man’s fingers shakes as he draws the ninth tail, and when he does – dogs started barking, the storm was furious as the place gets even darker. Dae Woong runs away from the painting, and accidentally falls from a cliff that almost ended his life. When he wakes up, a beautiful lady stands in front of him, probably hungry enough to eat his liver.

When the person you truly love wants your liver, you have no choice but to make sure she is never hungry. Dae Woong accidentally freed the legendary Gumiho out of the painting, the creature also happens to save Dae Woong’s life by giving him her most precious fox bead. In order to live, he accept her bead with one condition, Dae Woong must help her become a human.

In order to become a human, the sly nine-tailed fox lives by eating the livers of people. Taking the appearance of beautiful lady, she seduces men and turns them into her prey. Because of her bloodcurdling way to survive, men became aware of her true nature, thus in return she has never found a husband. After her great Grandma Samshin heard about this, she trapped Gumiho inside a painting to no longer cause problems among the town’s citizens.

Half of it was just a rumor. The 500 year old beauty with superhuman strength is actually a victim of the women’s jealousy hundreds of years ago. In reality, the sweet Gumiho would be satisfied just by eating beef, beef and more beef. Which probably placed a huge hole inside Dae Woong’s pocket.

 CHA DAE WOONG

Cha Dae Woong lost his parents at a very young age, eager to make him happy, his grandfather and aunt gave him everything he wanted. The spoiled brat lived life according to his wishes, but when his grandfather decides to transfer him to a more humble school far from his hometown, the wannabe actor runs away and instead got into a more life changing situation.

During his little adventure, he meets the Gumiho, the one that both saved and endangered his life. She follows him everywhere he goes and eventually declares to be his girlfriend for 100 days, in exchange of the fox bead that restores his strength inside him. Even if he tries to run away, he always keeps coming back to her, despite the fact that beef is probably one of the most expensive types of meat in the market.

not-so-hot-but-cold-blooded Veterinarian

Half-human and Half-goblin, Park Dong Joo has lived in the Human world for hundreds of years. An immortal being who is supposed to capture Gumiho. But when he learns that Miho's appearance made up of his ex-lover’s remains, Kil Dal’s fire, he tries to fulfill her wish to become a human being. Calm but possessive, he attacks his rivals from their behind. When he asks Miho to drink his blood and keep the bead inside Dae Woong for 100 days so she can be human, he did not tell her that doing so would kill the bead’s receiver.

His aggressiveness conceals his intense dark aura. He loves and cares for Miho, but does it in a subtle yet peculiar way. Sometimes, He's cruel, but his intentions are purer than it looks. He became the reason for Dae Woong’s childish jealously, as Dae Woong even went to his office for some dog related consultation just see if Miho is with him.

 He cares about her, and would do anything to save her life, even if it involves killing someone else. He wants her to live. He’s protecting her so he would not repeat the same mistake he made a hundred years ago.

Miho follows Dae Woong, obeys him and clings to him. Dae Woong feeds her meat, asks her to stay at one place and even makes her guard their home. Miho is loyal to Dae Woong. Dae Woong becomes her caretaker, teaching her how to do human-like things, brushing and not eating everything included.

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My Girlfriend is a gumiho become popular here in the Philippines, I think Last months of the year 2011 or early 2012. Since I'm a kpop / kdrama fanatic, I already watched it before it was aired here in Philippine television.

This drama is very different from the past kdramas that we used to love. It's a combination of historic, legendary, and modern setting. They did not use conventional style of writing, which is very tricky.

If we will look at it very closely, it is just a legendary story of a fox that have 100 days to be human, but they looked outside the box and conceptualized an extraordinary twist for it. Some of the lines in that drama is very very inspiring yet heartbreaking.

my favorite line :3

"Think of all of this as a dream. From the time I appeared before you and right now as I disappear from you; think of it all as a dream. If you think these are all dreams, when you open your yes, it won't hurt you at all. forget all the scary memories and just think of me a really really really good dream" . - Miho