Cha Dae-woong (Lee Seung-Gi) is a normal college student, with ambitions of becoming an action star. One day, he accidentally releases a gumiho (Shin Min-ah), a legendary fox with nine tails who was sealed inside a painting by Samshin Grandmother (三神). Fleeing the scene, Dae-woong suffers a life-threatening fall and is only saved by the gumiho giving him her "fox bead" (여우 구슬). When Dae-woong awakes and meets a mysterious and very beautiful girl, he initially treats her as eccentric or mentally ill, before she discloses that she is actually a gumiho in human form. According to myth, gumihos eat men's livers, so Dae-woong is scared out of his wits, and the gumiho takes advantage of his fear by sticking by his side. He names her "Mi-ho," and keeps her happy by buying her beef and hiding her true identity. Mi-ho wants nothing more than to become human, so they strike a deal: she'll lend him her mystical fox bead so that with his increased speed and strength, he'll be able to do difficult stunts, and in exchange he'll help her become human. As time passes, they get to know each other better and Dae-woong is charmed by how Mi-ho looks at the world with childlike wonder.
Park Dong-joo (No Min-woo), a half-human, half-supernatural being, whose cover identity is a working veterinarian. Dong-joo tells Mi-ho that she'll be able to turn human if she follows these instructions: She must drink Dong-joo's blood then place her fox bead inside a human's body for 100 days. Once she does this, her supernatural self will start to die, gradually. Her gumiho energy will slowly empty away while her bead will live in the human for 100 days and take in his energy. And when she reclaims her bead, she will become human. Mi-ho happily complies, and Dae-woong accepts her bead.
However, Dong-joo deliberately withheld the information that this process will result in the human's death. Mi-ho and Dae-woong thus fall in love without knowing the consequences of fulfilling her goal: in 100 days, Dae-woong will die if Mi-ho becomes fully human, but Mi-ho will die if the bead isn't returned.[4][5]
My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox achieved both nationwide and international success topping ratings in South Korea during its 2-month run. It is one of the most awarded and nominated South Korean series of all time receiving high honors including Best Foreign Soap Opera at the USTv Students' Choice Awards in the Philippines and earning both Lee Seung-gi and Shin Min-ah excellence awards at the SBS Drama Awards.
The drama has also accumulated over 180,000,000 views on Chinese streaming platform Youku and an average of 11,000,000 views per episode (as of April 2016) making it one of the most watched South Korean dramas online in the country.[8]
Joong-won recognizes the husband as his employee, so Gong-shil figures the wife was on her way to meet him when she died. But when she approaches with the shoe, she finds him cackling into his phone that it was a miracle she died and took care of that all on her own.
And so Gong-shil takes the walk of shame home, braving snickers from strangers and stumbling along in her broken-down tissue box. Joong-won does discover a pair of slippers in his car and briefly considers them, then figures the tissue box is sturdy and comfortable enough.
That makes Kang Woo smile, and she giggles to herself. Her sister Gong-ri drops by and suggests that this ghost problem could be caused by her lack of energy and stamina. Thus, she encourages her to get closer to Kang Woo and build up her stamina by taking some of his. Ha, there are a couple ways to interpret that sentence.
The next day while at work, Gong-shil comes to the shop owned by the husband to High Heeled Ghost, which is temporarily closed. Joong-won also makes his rounds with his team and tells his team to look into the owner, who seems untrustworthy.
The woman heads into the closed shop, followed by the husband, and Gong-shil peers in through the window to watch. Her view is obstructed by a wall of bags on display, so she imagines herself wearing the heels (as the wife) and tiptoes herself into the perfect vantage point to see the two of them getting awfully chummy.
A flashback takes us back to the night he was driving himself home from the hospital, only to be led back to the hospital by either an errant GPS or a terrible sense of direction. It was then that Joong-won had seen the husband throwing away the shoe, which he insists now was just coincidence.
So both sisters join the security team at their drinking party, where Kang Woo keeps a particularly close eye on her. Gong-shil sticks to cola but gets an accidental taste of some liquor, and unni hastens to put her next to Kang Woo.
In the present, he stalks through his mall in a dark mood, calling her a bitch, and heads out of the building. Drunk Gong-shil recognizes him standing outside, and then spots the ghost standing behind him. Hee-joo turns around and clocks Gong-shil standing there.
Yeah they make the ghosts so scary it's a huge turn off to watch. Though the other parts of the drama are a huge turn on to watch. It doesn't help that right now it's the Chinese Ghost Month in my country. So not helpful at all
Overall, I like this drama because it makes me giggle and I love the interactions between the main characters. I'm okay with the "ghost story of the episode" for now, but I hope that at a certain point there won't be any. I want to know more about Joongwon's past, and why Gongshil sees ghosts, and what Kangwoo is doing. I know that it's only the 2nd week of this drama but I want more from the main characters. Less from random ghost-of-the-day.
So far I am liking this show more than "Good Doctor". It is a bit cheesy on the ghosts, but I think the ghosts are supposed to be cheesy :) It is at least a little bit different. Not in the 5-star class, but pretty entertaining.
I'm lovinggg Master's Sun. It's not crack level just yet but it makes me smile with giddiness, pout at the sad stories (no tissues here just yet, Show) and be creeped out by the ghosts all within a span of 20mins.
What I'm liking alot is the self-awareness from the writing. The characters at a basic level are stock rom-com folk and in any other drama Gong-shil's words would be cliche. Instead, the awareness of that is played up for laughs.
TGS is adorably forward. I think I might like Gong Hyo Jin here more than Greatest Love but I'm only 3 episodes in after all and my memory is always a bit fuzzy. JJW is such an ass but I loves it. I find his little face-wave move hilarious (I wonder if this will be the Tae Kyung scrunched face of Youre Beautiful or the Hoi Hoi handshake of Gumiho).
I for one love the alcohol twist. Drunkenness LITERALLY turns her into someone else. BRILLIANT! I have never enjoyed watching somebody be unwillingly hugged this much. Joong-won doesn't want to enjoy it, but he always lets her cling for a bit too long before pushing her off. I also adore that Joong-woo is bothered by Kang-woo's presence. Hehe...
Cute how the drama worked to turn idiomatic expressions and language convention into LITERAL meanings, whereas the attempts by a character INSIDE the drama at being specifically literal (cussing at the ghost) fails LOL
He definitely enjoys that hug when she throws herself at him and holds on for dear life. He no longer just annoyed, surprised or discomfited. That hugs affected him more than her. He totally feels everything in that moment.
Love that hugging scene!
Omg ha i love this comment.
The hug made me all giddy inside. Cue slow-mo and ballad and you have yourself a typical rom-com move.
But Gong Hyo Jin and So Ji Sub has some good chemistry with each other so it makes it a swoon-worthy scene for me.
Thanks for the recap!
SJS and GYJ: I'm here for you guys. I don't care about the ratings, I almost fell asleep with this episode, pink heels, random PPL and all. The worst for me is the comedy aspect (I didn't laugh once for this episode): What happened? I hope ep 4 will be better or I will use the YTBLSS solution: Eps watched in 5 mins for the OTP.
Yeah same...I'm not gung-ho. The ghosts of the week really are so boring. And I made the mistake of starting to watch Greatest Love this past week, and So Ji-sub really is just Cha Seung-won-lite in this role.
I think most of us agree that while this is not super over the top like IHYV or QoC, it is at least entertaining enough to watch. I just hope that if they keep up with the "ghost of the week" that they get something a bit deeper than what they have had so far. I thought the high school girl thing in last episode to be especially banal, this week was a little better but still standard fare.
I love Gong Hyo Jin and her chemistry with So Ji Sub is killing me. Even if I considered jumping ships before because of my undying love for Seo In Gook, now I'm sure I will ship Gong Shil & Joo Joong fooreeeeveeeer. Even if I'm biased towards Seo In Gook (blame Answer Me 1997), I'm not gonna suffer the Second Lead Syndrome this time around. I luff the leads together too much.
This was the first time the ghost caught me by survive. I jumped when it showed up behind the secretary. Having said that the episode was a bit slow for me. I like it, but I'm only interested when out main couple is on screen. She makes everything so much more enjoyable.
Other thing with I come to love about the Hong sisters dramas. Their obvious but not really product placement. The tissue box, the car the episode before the drinks. It always makes me laugh.
I think there was a important detail left out of the recap! Joong-won tells Gong-shil that he only took her side because the evil husband was planning to betray Kingdom and move to Giant Mall. (Seriously? Couldn't come up with better names?) But during his morning round of greetings just before, the secretary (or Uncle?) made it clear that the husband wasn't going to move to Giant. Though Joong-won said he couldn't trust him, the audience never got any confirmation. So I was under the impression that he stood up for Gong-shil solely for her pride at the expense of his mall. Am I wrong? Did I misunderstand something?
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