Lee Seung-gi as Cha Dae-woong, an immature aspiring actor who lost his parents at a young age, and was subsequently raised by his affluent grandfather and aunt. When his grandfather tries to enroll him in a strict boarding school, Dae-woong runs away and eventually ends up at a Buddhist temple, where a woman’s voice tells him to draw nine tails on a painting of a fox. He then meets a girl who informs him that she was the gumiho in the painting (he later calls her Mi-ho). Scared in the beginning that she’ll eat him, he tries to keep her happy by buying her meat (Korean beef in particular, her favorite) and hiding the fact that she’s a gumiho from others. Later, Dae-woong falls in love with Mi-ho.
Shin Min-ah as Gu Mi-ho/Park Seon-ju/Gil-dal, a legendary nine-tailed fox (or “gumiho” in Korean mythology) who was sealed inside a painting for 500 years. She’s dreamed of becoming human for centuries, but once rumors spread that she’s a femme fatale who eats men’s livers, n
