While thinking about how she should spend her last days, she makes a wish on shooting stars. However, her hopeful outlook on life is finally crushed when she gets diagnosed with a terminal illness.ĭong-kyung is devastated as she only has 100 days to live. ĭespite facing the tragic death of her parents and having to support her younger brother, Dong-kyung remained positive and diligent. You can read our review of My Roommate is a Gumiho here. If they fail to retrieve it within the fixed time span, the bead will disintegrate and ultimately kill her. They are given a year to remove the bead from Lee Dam’s body. This leaves them with no choice but to live together in order to figure out a method to retrieve the bead safely. One day, she swallows Woo-yeo’s bead by accident.
His plan to become human goes smoothly until he meets Lee Dam. He must ensure that his bead accumulates a sufficient amount of “human energy” so that its colour changes from red to blue. Woo-yeo is eager to become human, but he has to fulfil a task before he can live as one.
Lee Dam is an ordinary university student, while Shin Woo-yeo is a 999-year-old gumiho, a nine-tailed creature found in Korean folktales. Falling in love may be easy, but keeping the relationship going with the conflicting nature of their jobs – one having to load a gun to kill enemy forces and the other having to wield a scalpel to save lives – is what they have to overcome. Yoo Si-jin, a captain of the special forces, and a doctor, Kang Mo-yeon, had a brief encounter at a hospital before being mobilised on the same overseas peacekeeping mission. Their split in 2019 came as a shock to many, but let’s not focus on reality for now. Well, you know what they say about fiction being better than reality right? Descendants of the Sun, better known as DOTS, is a 2016 hit drama which resulted in the union of the Song-Song couple a year later. But it’s exactly these impossible circumstances that keep viewers coming back for more.
The leads’ encounter may seem absurd: Yoon Se-ri, an heiress from one of South Korea’s largest chaebols (conglomerates), lands in the North and meets Ri Jeong-hyeok – a North Korean military personnel – after her paragliding trip went wrong. This 2019 drama, also known as CLOY for short, needs no further introduction as it’s one of the most raved-about romantic Korean dramas to date.