Gu Family Book (Season 1)

Gu Family Book (2013) is a South Korean fantasy drama series you can watch online on iFILM — 24 episodes set in the Joseon Dynasty, built around the Korean myth of the gumiho, the nine-tailed fox spirit.

Choi Kang Chi (Lee Seung-gi) never knew his real origins: his father was a gumiho who fell in love with a mortal woman and failed to complete the path to becoming human. Kang Chi has inherited both the power and the unfinished problem. Dam Yeo Wool (Bae Suzy) trains at her father's martial arts school — skilled, independent, and the last person Kang Chi planned to get close to. Jo Gwan Woong, a traitor working against the country's interests, hunts Kang Chi across every episode.

The show flips the folklore: the gumiho is usually a female fox-spirit preying on men; this version makes the half-beast male, longing to belong to the human world. Lee Seung-gi and Bae Suzy carry the central romance without making it the only thing in the frame. Stream Gu Family Book online on iFILM.