Forbidden Love

This was a bit of a surprise drama for me. My thought was that the fighting scenes might be a bit cheesy. The original title is called Gumiho Oejeon. Alternate titles were Tale of the Nine Tailed Fox or The Legend of the Nine Tailed Fox.

To better understand, Nine Tailed Fox (Gumiho) is a creature that appears in the oral tales and legends of Korea. According to those tales, a fox that lives a thousand years turns into a gumiho.

The drama stars Kim Tae-Hee, Jun Jin, Jo Hyun-Jae, Han Ye-Seul and Eom Tae-Woong. The overall story was good and the fighting scenes were up to par (don’t expect blood gushing). I watched all 16 episodes in 2 days.

Synopsis:

Shi Yeon (Kim Tae-Hee) is a Nine-Tailed Fox living undercover in the human world. By day, Shi Yeon is an employee at a natural history museum. By night, she’s a top-ranking woman warrior in the Nine-Tailed Fox clan, charged with preserving the delicate balance between man and fox. But her world is sent spinning when an atrocious serial murder, where the victims have had their internal organs gouged out is uncovered. Detective Min Woo (Jo Hyun-Jae) believes the murders may relate to the organ trafficking trade, and goes undercover in a seedy organ smuggling ring. But Min Woo’s cover is blown, and it’s only through the intervention Nine-Tailed Fox warrior Mu Young (Jun Jin) and Shi Yeon that he’s able to survive! But he’s seen their true identities as Nine-Tailed Foxes…can he be allowed to live?