My Roommate is a Gumiho

May 26, 2021

Nine-tailed fox Shin Woo-yeo (Jang Ki-yong) accidentally swallows a marble containing college student Lee Dam's (HyeRi) soul while she is drunk. To retrieve it safely, they must live together.

May 26, 2021

The terms of their cohabitation are established. Woo-yeo's Bukchon hanok house — his 999-year home — now has an accidental tenant.

June 2, 2021

Lee Dam's university world — the Seodaemun-gu campus — contrasted with Woo-yeo's ancient hanok life. Two incompatible existences forced into proximity.

June 2, 2021

Woo-yeo's history — nine centuries of solitude, observation, one year from finally becoming human — is shown in contrast with Dam's extremely ordinary 22 years.

June 9, 2021

The marble's effect on Dam — and the time pressure of its retrieval — create the drama's structural urgency.

June 9, 2021

Extended scenes in the Bukchon hanok — the drama's most beautiful location used for its warmest episodes.

June 16, 2021

Woo-yeo and Dam have moved past their initial wariness. The hanok has stopped feeling like imprisonment.

June 23, 2021

Dam navigating her campus relationships while hiding her extraordinary domestic situation.

June 23, 2021

Woo-yeo, who has observed humans for 999 years, begins experiencing feelings he has no framework for.

June 30, 2021

Woo-yeo's relationship with contemporary Seoul — its streets, its technology, its social rituals — is shown through Dam's guided introduction.

June 30, 2021

Woo-yeo is closer to becoming human than he has ever been. What that will cost — and what he will miss — begins to surface.

July 7, 2021

A complication from the supernatural world threatens the marble retrieval.

July 7, 2021

Woo-yeo and Dam working together against an external threat — the drama's action dimension.

July 14, 2021

The one-year deadline approaching. What Woo-yeo will become, and what he will leave behind.

July 14, 2021

The finale. A fantasy romance that used its nine-tailed fox premise to ask what we are willing to give up to become something new — and found a genuinely satisfying answer.