My Girlfriend is a Guminho

My Girlfriend Is Guminho

• The gumiho (구미호 / 구 "gu" - nine) (literally "nine tailed fox") is a creature that appears in the oral tales and legends of Korea, and are akin to European faeries. According to those tales, a fox that lives a thousand years turns into a gumiho, like its Japanese and Chinese counterparts (the kitsune and the huli jing).It can freely transform, among other things, into a beautiful girl often set out to seduce men, and eat their liver. There are numerous tales in which the gumiho appears. Several of those can be found in the encyclopedic Compendium of Korean Oral Literature (한국 구비문학 대계).

 

 

My Girlfriend Is Guminho

Transformation

• Legends tell that while the gumiho is capable of changing its appearance, there is still something persistently fox-like about it; its countenance changes, but its nature does not. In Transformation of the Kumiho (구미호의 변신), a kumiho transforms into an identical likeness of a bride at a wedding. Not even the bride's mother can tell the difference. The kumiho is only discovered when her clothes are removed. Bakh Mun-su and the gumiho (박문수와 구미호) records an encounter that Pak Munsu has with a girl, living alone in the woods, that has a fox-like appearance. In The Maiden who Discovered a Kumiho through a Chinese Poem (한시로 구미호를 알아낸 처녀) the gumiho was ultimately revealed when a hunting dog caught the scent of the fox and attacked.

• Although it is typically depicted as a woman when it transforms into a human being, the kumiho in the tale of The Maiden who Discovered a Gumiho through a Chinese Poem (한시로 구미호를 알아낸 처녀) turns into a young man that attempts to trick the maiden in marrying him. However, this is the only case in which it transforms into a man.

• Although they are considered as having the ability to morph into other forms, the true identity of a Kumiho was said to be zealously guarded by the Kumihos themselves. There are also legends in which these transformations are said to be involuntary.

History

• It is unclear at which point in time Koreans began viewing the KGumiho as a purely evil creature, since many of the ancient texts mention benevolent Gumihos assisting humans. In fact, many older texts make more frequent mentions of wicked humans tricking kind but naïve Gumihos.

• As the mythology of the Gumiho evolved, it was later believed that a Gumiho had to consume human hearts in order to survive. In later literature they are often depicted as a blood-thirsty half-fox, half-human creature that wandered cemeteries at night, digging human hearts out from graves.

• Like all other monsters, the Gumiho was thought to grow wise with age and with enough training, eventually learn to morph itself into various forms, including humans. Thus, they are often depicted as beautiful young maidens that trick unsuspecting men and later consume their hearts.

• Another version was that the Gumiho must eat livers. This was because the liver contained the energy of a human, meaning that it processes the food and gives energy, therefore making it the container of the life force of a human. The fairy tale The Fox Sister depicts a fox spirit preying on a family for livers.

• Another version of the mythology, however, holds that with enough will a Gumiho could further ascend from its Yokwe state and become fully, permanently human and lose its evil character. Explanations of how this could be achieved vary, but they sometimes include aspects such as refraining from killing or tasting meat for a thousand days, or obtaining a cintamani and making sure that the Yeoiju saw the full moon at least every month during the ordeal. Unlike Yeoiju wielding dragons, Gumiho were not thought to be capable of omnipotence or creation at will since they were lesser creatures.

• The idea of a beast becoming fully human is in fact quite heavily embedded in Korean mythology, such as the case in which a bear becomes a woman through a harsh ordeal in the Dangun mythology.

Trivia

• A Gumiho (구미호) is one of the creatures in the category of Monster(요괴) and therefore usually not included among the seven Ghost(귀신) or God (신) categories.

Adaptation

• In 2010, SBS broadcast a romantic comedy drama, My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox. It is about a gumiho who escaped from the painting of Grandma Samshin after 500 years, it was made possible because of it asking a man to draw nine tails on the painting. It was revealed that 500 years before, she went down to the earth, she was said to be the prettiest woman bewitching all men around her. Wanting to be a human, she Grandma Samshin said that if she found a husband, she could stay as a human permanently. She failed at finding for a husband because of rumors saying she eats human liver. The rumor was spread by the women of the village, who didn't want to lose their sons and husbands to the Gumiho. When the man who freed her fell from a cliff, the gumiho saved him by giving her fox-bead (여우 구슬). Since her bead is with him, she is to stay with him so she won't lose her aura. Near around the series a hunter who is half human comes to find her and kill her to bring her back. He falls in love with her because he had once killed her and sent her into the painting (which she does not remember). In the end, he tries helps he become ordinary.

• The drama shows that the gumiho is afraid of large bodies of water whenever her bead is not with her. A gumiho can run faster than cars, can jump high as the tallest trees, can fly, never feel pain (only if the fox-bead is with her), eats a LOT of meat (especially cow's meat), white in color, its eyes turn blue making them scary and showcases its nine-tails whenever the moon is present.

See also

• List of Korea-related topics
• History of Korea
• Culture of Korea
• Kitsune, a Japanese fox spirit
• Huli jing a Chinese fox spirit

Details

• Title: 구미호: 여우누이뎐 / Gumiho: Yeowoonuidyun
• Also known as: Grudge: The Revolt of Gumiho
• Previously known as: 구미호의 복수 / Gumihoui Boksoo / The Gumiho's Revenge
• Genre: Thriller, melodrama, period
• Episodes: 16
• Broadcast network: KBS2
• Broadcast period: 2010-Jul-05 to 2010-Aug-24
• Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

 

Synopsis

• The legendary gumiho or nine-tailed fox, Goo San Daek, leaves her husband after his betrayal renders her unable to shapeshift. She takes her nine-year-old daughter, Yeon Yi, who has yet to gain the ability to use her gumiho powers, to a village in order to protect her. As Yeon Yi turns ten, her physical transformation begins, putting her in increasing danger of being discovered by her neighbors

 

Cast

• Han Eun Jung as Goo San Daek (Gumiho)
• Jang Hyun Sung as Yoon Doo Soo
• Kim Yoo Jung as Yeon Yi
• Seo Shin Ae as Yoon Cho Ok
• Kim Jung Nan as Lady Yang
• Kim Gyu Chul as Steward Oh
• Suh Joon Young as Chun Woo
• Im Seo Yeon as Kye Hyang
• Kim Woo Suk (김우석) as Yoon Choong Il
• Woo Min Gyu (우민규) as Yoon Choong Yi
• Chun Ho Jin as psychic
• Park Soo Hyun as exorcist
• Yoon Hee Suk as Jo Hyun Kam
• Lee Min Ho as Jo Jung Kyu
• Jung Eun Pyo as San Daek's husband
• Baek Bong Ki
• Jang Hang Sun as monk

 

Production Credits

• Producer: Lee Jae Young (이재영), Kim Shin Il (김신일)
• Director: Lee Gun Joon, Lee Jae Sang
• Assistant Director: Lee Choon Gil (이춘길)
• Screenwriter: Oh Sun Hyung (오선형), Jung Do Yeon (정도윤)

 

Recognitions

2010 KBS Drama Awards: Excellence Award, Special Planning Drama - Actress (Han Eun Jung)
2010 KBS Drama Awards: Youth Actress Award (Kim Yoo Jung and Seo Shin Ae

 

Episode Ratings

• see Gumiho: Tale of the Fox's Child/Episode Ratings

Ini drama terakhir yang aku tonton di tahun 2010. My Girl Friend is A Guminho adalah k-drama yang release pada 11 Agustus 2010, drama romantis komedi tentang kisah cinta antara manusia dan siluman rubah berekor sembilan.

Di Korea ada sebuah legenda 500 tahun yang lalu dimana Third Godmother mengurung Guminho (siluman rubah berekor sembilan) kedalam sebuah lukisan. Sebenarnya Guminho tidak jahat, hanya saja kecantikannya membuat para pria terpikat. Para petani berhenti mengolah sawah dan para pemuda tidak pergi kesekolah gara_gara mengikuti kemanapun Guminho pergi. Para wanita menjadi hawatir, maka dikurunglah Guminho ke dalam sebuah lukisan.

Dan dimasa sekarang, hiduplah seorang pemuda bernama Cha Dae Woong yang manja dan menghambur-hamburkan uang kakeknya. Dia bercita-cita menjadi aktor laga tanpa mau menyelesaikan kuliah. Sang kakek berniat mengirimnya ke sekolah militer, tapi sebelum semuanya terjadi Woong malah kabur.

Woong terjebak di sebuah kuil di desa terpencil dan disitulah ia bertemu Guminho. Untuk menakut-nakuti Woong, Guminho mengaku kalau dia adalah setan wanita. Ini kesempatan Guminho untuk melepaskan diri dari lukisan, Woong disuru menggambar 9 ekor rubah yang ada dilukisan. Guminho akhirnya bebas.

Tidak tahu harus kemana, Guminho yang menjelma menjadi wanita cantik ini mengikuti kemanapun Woong pergi. Kisah selanjutnya semakin seru ketika Guminho yang telah hidup sejak 500 tahun lalau harus masuk dalam kehidupan modern Woong.

Cerita yang diangkat dari legenda rakyat Korea dan kemudian di kemas dalam cerita di kehidupan modern zaman sekarang membuat aku tertarik menontonnya. Adegan ketika Guminho menakut-nakuti Woong, bener-bener dapet horornya.

Tiap episode cerita makin seru ditambah banyaknya adegan komedi bikin semangat nonton ini.
Setiap ngelihat Guminho sedang makan, bikin aku ikutan selera dengan makanannya :D


Ini adegan ketika Woong cemburu. Lucu liatnya... :D





Ini waktu adegan Guminho ngajak kawin :))

Di drama biasanya kalau si saingan muncul, si pemeran utama akan mengalah dan bersedih. Drama ini beda, si saingan datang Guminho gak mau nyerah. Dia berusaha membunuh si saingan dengan kejam.

Selain Guminho dan Woong, ada juga kisah tantenya Woong dan si sutradara film yang ngefans berat sama Chow Yun Fat, yang tiap muncul pasti selalu bikin ngakak dengan adegan-adegan konyolnya.

• “My Girlfriend is a Gumiho” atau dalam bahasa koreanya “내 여자친구는 구미호 / Nae Yeojachinguneun Gumiho”. Drama ini menceritakan tentang seorang Gumiho ( yang diperankan oleh Shin Min Ah) yang menjadi kekasih seorang manusia,bernama Cha Dae Woong ( diperankan oleh Lee Seung Gi).

• Bisa ditebak genre dariDrama terbaru Lee Seung Gi “My Girlfriend is a Gumiho”

• Satu lagi drama korea terbaru produksi SBS berjudul “My Girlfriend is a Gumiho” atau dalam bahasa koreanya “”. Drama ini menceritakan tentang seorang Gumiho ( yang diperankan oleh Shin Min Ah) yang menjadi kekasih seorang manusia,bernama Cha Dae Woong ( diperankan oleh Lee Seung Gi).

• Bisa ditebak genre dari drama ini bertemakan percintaan dan komedi. Kalian pasti mengingat drama korea “Sassy Girl Chun Hyang” yang merupakan drama korea tentang kisah percintaan anak SMA yang menarik dan lucu dengan dibintangi oleh Han Chae Young dan Jae Hee. Kali ini , penulis dari drama “Sassy Girl Chun Hyang” kembali hadir dalam cerita drama “My Girlfriend is a Gumiho” yang ditayangkan pada hari rabu, 11 agustus 2010 ini.

Oya, sebagai tambahan.. ini dia para pemain (karakter)nya :

Cha Dae Woong , 20 tahun (diperankan oleh Lee Seung Gi)

Gu Mi Ho ( diperankan oleh Shin Min Ah )

Park Dong Joo, 20 tahun, ( diperankan oleh Noh Min Woo )

Eun Hye In, 20 tahun, ( diperankan oleh Park Su Jin )

Ban Seon Nyun, 20 tahun, ( diperankan oleh Hyo Min )

Kim Byung Soo, 20 tahun, ( diperankan oleh Kim Ho Chang )

Lho nggak usah khwatir deh nieh gue kasih soundtracknya lho tinggal klik dan download aja....

My Girlfriend Is A Guminho OST - That Person That I Love

 My Girlfriend Is A Guminho OST - Two As One

 

 My Girlfriend Is A Guminho OST - Trap
 


My Girlfriend Is A Guminho OST - Oh la la
 

 My Girlfriend Is A Guminho OST -  Sha la la


 My Girlfriend Is A Guminho OST - Look At Me
 


My Girlfriend Is A Guminho OST - I Love You From Now On
 

 My Girlfriend Is A Guminho OST - Losing My Mind


My Girlfriend Is A Guminho OST - I Can Give You All
 

 My Girlfriend Is A Guminho OST - Fox Rain