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[[File:gf_6256.jpg|frame| Mi Ho and Dae Woong]]

''My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox'' is a 2010 [[Korean Drama]] written by [[The Hong Sisters]] about, well, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|a guy whose girlfriend is a nine-tailed fox]]. Dae Woong is a rather irresponsible film school student who basically lives by mooching off his rich grandfather. After being tricked into freeing the Gumiho [nine-tailed fox] from a painting where she was bound for 500 years, Dae Woong falls down a cliff in a panic and mortally injures himself. The Gumiho saves his life by giving him her fox's bead, and so now Dae Woong is stuck doing everything she asks or he will die from having the bead removed. Of course, this doesn't stop him from trying to find ways to get rid of the fox ("Mi Ho"). Too bad she's fallen in love with him and won't go away.

''My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox'' is a 2010 [[Korean Drama]] written by [[The Hong Sisters]] about, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a guy whose girlfriend is a nine-tailed fox]]. Dae Woong is a rather irresponsible film school student who basically lives by mooching off his rich grandfather. After being tricked into freeing the Gumiho [nine-tailed fox] from a painting where she was bound for 500 years, Dae Woong falls down a cliff in a panic and mortally injures himself. The Gumiho saves his life by giving him her fox's bead, and so now Dae Woong is stuck doing everything she asks or he will die from having the bead removed. Of course, this doesn't stop him from trying to find ways to get rid of the fox ("Mi Ho"). Too bad she's fallen in love with him and won't go away.

Of course, this being a drama, it's pretty inevitable that Dae Woong won't want to get rid of her by the end.

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=== ''My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox'' provides examples of: ===

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Dae Woong tells Mi Ho that she eats more than [[wikipedia:Kang Ho Dong|Kang Ho Dong]] (a fat comedian). Lee Seung gi, who plays Dae Woong, and Kang Ho Dong were both regular cast members of the variety show ''1 Night 2 Days'', so Lee Seung gi would know exactly how much Kang Ho Dong eats.

* [[Art Imitates Art]]: Min Sook takes a header off a gym balcony. Director Ban dashes across the gym floor and catches her, and they wind up in a pose exactly the same as the iconic ''[[Gone ~~With~~ the Wind]]'' poster--which happens to be hanging on a wall directly behind them.

* [[Art Imitates Art]]: Min Sook takes a header off a gym balcony. Director Ban dashes across the gym floor and catches her, and they wind up in a pose exactly the same as the iconic ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' poster--which happens to be hanging on a wall directly behind them.

* [[Art Initiates Life]]: How Dae Woong frees Mi Ho from the painting

* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Dae Woong can't believe that {{spoiler|he and Mi Ho goes from [[There Can Be Only One|only one can live]] to separate-to-survive}}

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* [[Boy Meets Ghoul|Boy Meets Nine-tailed Fox]]

* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Dong Joo doesn't lie to Mi Ho; he even tells her that he hadn't told her [[False Reassurance|the whole truth]].

* [[Call a Rabbit A Smeerp]]/[[The Nicknamer]]: Mi Ho calls Dae Woong "Woong," Dong Joo "[[Big Brother Mentor|Teacher]]," the Chicken Lady "[[The Fashionista|Fashionista]]," and her favorite soda "[[Call a Rabbit A Smeerp|bubbly water]]," among other things.

* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]/[[The Nicknamer]]: Mi Ho calls Dae Woong "Woong," Dong Joo "[[Big Brother Mentor|Teacher]]," the Chicken Lady "[[The Fashionista|Fashionista]]," and her favorite soda "[[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|bubbly water]]," among other things.

* [[Call Back]]:

** Because she no longer has her fox bead, Mi Ho tells Dae Woong that she's afraid of large bodies of water. So where does he take her to abandon her? A boat.

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* [[Death's Hourglass]]

* [[December-December Romance]]: Director Ban/Aunt Min Sook

* [[Distracted By the Sexy]]: The villagers can't pay attention to their work when Mi Ho walks by.

* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: The villagers can't pay attention to their work when Mi Ho walks by.

* [[Driven By Envy]]: Hye In

* [[Driven by Envy]]: Hye In

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Mi Ho's constant references to "eating" Dae Woong

* [[Epunymous Title]]: Gumiho = nine-tailed fox. The show's name can be translated as "My girlfriend is a nine-tailed fox" or "My girlfriend is gumiho." Also, the main character is called Gu Mi Ho for most of the drama.

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* [[Imagine Spot]]

* [[Immortal Immaturity]]

* [[In Touch ~~With~~ His Feminine Side]]: Dae Woong pays awful attention to his skin and hair.

* [[In Touch with His Feminine Side]]: Dae Woong pays awful attention to his skin and hair.

* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Mi Ho tells Dae Woong that she has given him something very precious (her bead) and he should take responsibility. Naturally, his friends overhear and make sexual assumptions.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]

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* [[Magical Girlfriend]]: Arguably, Mi Ho is one, but Dae Woong thinks of her more as a curse than anything else.

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]

* [[Meaningful Background Event]]: When Ban catches Aunt Min Sook in midair, look at the poster. A [[Gone ~~With~~ the Wind]] picture of Scarlett being held the same way.

* [[Meaningful Background Event]]: When Ban catches Aunt Min Sook in midair, look at the poster. A [[Gone with the Wind]] picture of Scarlett being held the same way.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Gu Mi Ho is a... Gumiho. To be fair, Dae Woong just came up with it on the spur of the moment as part of a rather weak fib.

* [[Missed Him By That Much|Missed Her By THAT Much]]

* [[Missed Him by That Much|Missed Her By THAT Much]]

* [[Multiple-Tailed Beast]]

* [[Nice Guy]]: Dae Woong knows most of his friends are using him for his money and is kind to them anyway.

* [[Our Monsters Are Different|Our]] [[wikipedia:Gumiho|Gumihoes]] [[Our Monsters Are Different|Are Different]]: In most legends, the nine-tailed fox [gumiho] is a shape-shifting fox who seduces men and eats their liver. [[Genre Savvy|Mi Ho]] [[Exploited Trope|exploits]] this trope to get Dae Woong to do what she wants.

* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Hye In

* [[Red Pill ~~B Lue~~ Pill|Red Vial, Blue Vial]]: Dong Joo gives the choice to Mi Ho.

* [[Red Pill, Blue Pill|Red Vial, Blue Vial]]: Dong Joo gives the choice to Mi Ho.

* [[Retraux Flashback]]: When Aunt Min Sook thinks back to all the times she has had her heart broken, each flashback is accompanied by a popular love song from the era while the characters are shown in appropriate dress.

* [[Reveal Shot]]: After Dae Woong steals his grandpa's fish and runs into traffic, we cut to the hospital where Grandpa is begging the doctor to save him ... then we see Dae Woong with just a band-aid on his head. Grandpa has been pleading for the fish's life!

* [[Runaway Fiance]]: In Mi Ho's backstory, her fiance was afraid of the rumours that she would eat his liver, so he bails out.

* [[Sealed Badass in A Can]]: Mi Ho.

* [[Sealed Badass in a Can]]: Mi Ho.

* [[Shapeshifting Lover]]: Mi Ho is one to Daewoong.

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** Dae Woong tells Mi Ho that they can be friends, even though they're not the same species. In fact, if [[E.T. the ~~Extraterrestrial (Film)~~|ET the Extraterrestrial]] can do it, so can they! And he teaches her the E.T. handshake.

** Dae Woong tells Mi Ho that they can be friends, even though they're not the same species. In fact, if [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]] can do it, so can they! And he teaches her the E.T. handshake.

** After hearing the gist of [[The Little Mermaid]] (and its Disney ending), Mi Ho vows to become [[The Little Mermaid]] -- until Sun Nyeo asks if that means Mi Ho wants to die.

* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]: Mi Ho is so unearthly beautiful that men couldn't work when she was present, and all the women clamoured to have her locked away.