My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho (Season 1)

My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho (내 여자친구는 구미호, 2010) — watch online on iFILM: a Korean romantic comedy directed by Boo Seong-cheol, starring Lee Seung-gi and Shin Min-a. In Korean folklore a gumiho is a nine-tailed fox spirit, feared for the havoc she brings to the men who get too close. This one spent five centuries locked inside a painting.

Wannabe action star Cha Dae-woong accidentally sets her free, and she decides he's the solution to everything: she wants to become human, he's available, deal done. He's not entirely on board. The show keeps the supernatural element genuinely strange — she's curious, lethal, and not remotely a metaphor — while building a romance between two characters who stay together out of necessity long enough to turn it into something else. Also starring No Min-woo and Park Shin-hye. Stream My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho online on iFILM.