Miniseries · tvN
My Roommate Is a Gumiho
I ended up living with a gumiho.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Jang Ki-yong
Shin Woo-yeo
16 eps
Lee Hye-ri
Lee Dam
16 eps
Bae In-hyuk
Gye Seon-woo
16 eps
Kang Han-na
Yang Hye-sun
16 eps
Kim Do-wan
Do Jae-jin
16 eps
Park Kyung-hye
Choi Soo-kyeong
16 eps
Choi Woo-sung
Lee Dan
16 eps
Kim Do-yeon
Gye Seo-woo
16 eps
Kim Kang-min
Jung-suk
16 eps
이주하
Young-ok
16 eps
Kim Hyeon-mok
Bus Passenger
1 eps
Kim Eung-soo
Shin Woo-yeo
1 eps
Jang Sung-kyu
Park Jae-hyun
1 eps
Lee Dong-yong
Hardware Shop Owner
1 eps
You Il-han
Nightclub Guy
1 eps
Lee Se-hee
Gisaeng
1 eps
Oh Hyun-kyung
Lee Dam's mother
1 eps
Han Ji-eun
Hwang Yoo-jin
4 eps
Jung So-min
Shin Woo-Yeo's past love
2 eps
Kang Mi-na
Choi Jin-ah
2 eps
Lee Kyu-sung
Mountain Spirit
2 eps
Shim Hyung-tak
Gye Sun-woo's uncle
1 eps
Go Kyung-pyo
Mountain Spirit
5 eps
Oh Jung-se
Do Jae-Jin's brother
1 eps
Park Jin-young
Assistant Teacher
1 eps
Heo Soo-bin
Seogwa University student
1 eps
Ha Mheen
Gye Seon-wo Mother (Eps 14)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How My Roommate Is a Gumiho actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
My Roommate Is a Gumiho reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
To become a human, a 999-year-old Gumiho, Shin Woo-yeo needs to fill his fox bead with human energy before he turns 1,000 years old. One day, a college girl, Lee Dam accidentally swallows Woo-yeo's fox bead.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Paek Sun-wooWriter
- Choi Bo-rimWriter
Direction
- Nam Sung-wooDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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