No.of Epis: 8Year/TV Station: 2008/KBS
Synopsis/Cast: (edited from Dramawiki)
Epi 1 - Return of the Gumiho
Myung Ok (Park Min Young) & Seo Ok (Kim Ha Eun) find out that their sister In Hong, who is to get married, was dead in the sedan. Soon, they discovered the terrible secret of the females in the Lee Household. The Lee household is said to be cursed by the nine-tailed fox (gumiho), thus they have to check if the females wld turn out to be one. Seo Ok is caught and sacrificed, but she didn't turn out to be a gumiho. Lee Hyo Moon (Kim Tae Ho) finally knows the real reason of killing the gumihos, while Myung Ok, who knows too much of the secret is locked up, and hatred turns her into a gumiho.
Epi 2 - Baby, Let's Go to Cheong Mountain
Dang Gol Ne (Jo Eun Sook) is a sorceress who tells a noblewoman, Yoon (Wang Hee Ji), that in order to save her sick child, Young Hwa (Kim So Hyun), she must feed a baby's liver to Young Hwa. She hires Chun Soo, a man who digs up dead corpses to help her find the liver. The baby's mother realises that she was tricked and goes in search of her baby only to find her child dead. Devastated, she commits suicide. After Young Hwa recovers, strange things start to happen. All this while, the mother's ghost is still searching for her baby.
Epi 3 - Curse of the Sajin Sword
This story portrays the holy 'Sajin Sword' which involves the royal family and has fell twice into war. Yoon In (Choi Soo Jung) is a very resourceful detective who is sent to a village to investigate the death of the blacksmith who made the important Sajin Sword. Moo Ryung (Sa Gang) and Sung Goo (Lee Jung) accompany him on his journey but they soon feel uncomfortable as they found the blackened corpses.
Epi 4 - Ghost Letter
King In Jong (Kim Young Jae) suddenly dies after ruling for nine months. After his death, several deaths occurred. Certain people believe that this incident is similar to a popular ghost story called "The Legend of Seol Gong Chan." The former king's childhood best friend, Sa Hyun (Ahn Jae Mo), is a cold-hearted and righteous prosecutor who tries to figure out the matter of the mysterious deaths.
Epi 5 - Oh Goo the Exorcism
Min Yoo Rim (Lee Young Eun) is a young girl who loves an exorcist, Yoon Ki Joo (Jae Hee). But due to an unfortunate accident, she was hanged. As an exorcist, Ki Joo is able to distinguish between life and death. He arrives at a village in search of Yoo Rim's soul but finds that the village is in need of his help. Just when Ki Joo thought he had lost Yoo Rim, he meets another girl, Lee Chae Ok (Lee Young Eun), who resembles Yoo Rim. Together they try to figure out what is behind the mysterious deaths in the village.
Epi 6 - Gisaeng House Ghost Story
Kim Won Ik (Lee Duk Hwa) and Hyo Rang (Lee Min Woo) are aristocrats who caused the death of a Gisaeng. She comes back from the dead to seek revenge on them. The story is about human greed and violence that emerges from the bottom of one person's fears.
Epi 7 - Demon's Story
The story is about a death messenger (Lee Won Jung) who loses a book containing the names of people who are going to live and die. He enlists the help of a thief to help him steal the book from the governor but things are not as easy as he thought they would be.
Epi 8 - Returning Lady
Soo Yeon (Lee Jin) is married to Jung In (Kang Sun Min) but on their wedding day, she was forced to go to Shimyang. After being held captive, she escapes from the enemies' soldiers and returns to her hometown only to be ignored by her in-laws. Her mother-in-law fabricates a lie saying that Soo Yeon's carrying another man's child in order to throw Soo Yeon out of the house. Soo Yeon returns home only to be poisoned by her illegitimate half-brother and mistress. Soo Yeon and her sister-in-law become vengeful ghosts and seek revenge by seducing men and then killing them. Jung In has become a royal inspector who is assigned to find out the cause of the men's mysterious deaths. However, on the mountain ridge where all these deaths occurred, he sees the ghost of Soo Yeon...
Slacker's review:
This can be seen as the Korean version of "Liao Zhai". Most of the stories are rather sad in nature. However, they are not scary to me la. (Depends on ppl tho.) In fact, epi 7 is quite funny..haha! There are some big names here who u may know, like Park Min Young, Jae Hee, Ahn Jae Mo, Lee Min Woo, Lee Jin & Choi Soo Jung.
My personal favourites are epi 1,2,5,6 & 8. However, i gotta comment that their ghosts are really too pretty and not scary la. If they can build up on the eerie atmosphere and on the ghosts' make up, i think this drama wld be much better.
Well, this drama is quite entertaining, so for ppl who like horror stuffs, don't miss this drama.
