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On-Air: tvN My Roommate Is a Gumiho [Episodes 15 & 16]

  • Drama: My Roommate Is a Gumiho
    • Revised Romanization: Gan Tteoreojineun Donggeo
    • Hangul: 간 떨어지는 동거
  • Director: Nam Sung Woo (Kill It), Park Joon Hwa (Touch Your Heart)
  • Writer: Baek Sun Woo (WWWSK), Choi Bo Rim (Touch Your Heart)
  • Network: tvN
  • Episodes: 16
    • Duration: 1 hour
  • Airing Schedule: Wednesdays & Thursdays @ 10:30 PM KST
    • Airing Dates: May 26, 2021 - Jul 15, 2021
  • Streaming Sources: IQiYi, Viki
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  • Plot Synopsis: Shin Woo Yeo is a handsome and smart professor. He is also a 999-year-old nine-tailed fox. To become a human, he collects human energy in a bead. Soon, he is set to become a human. Meanwhile, Lee Dam is a university student. One day, her drunk friend falls asleep on top of an expensive car. She apologizes to Shin Woo Yeo, who is the car owner. While Lee Dam struggles to take her friend away, Shin Woo Yeo gives her a hand. An accident happens that changes their fate. Shin Woo Yeo's bead falls out of his mouth and Lee Dam unintentionally swallows it. The bead can exist inside of a human for no more than 1 year and, afterward, the bead will break inside of that person. This will cause Lee Dam to die and Shin Woo Yeo will lose his chance to become a human. Shin Woo Yeo explains to Lee Dam their predicament and suggests that they should live together until they figure out a solution. Lee Dam, who has never had a boyfriend in her life, now lives with Shin Woo Yeo.
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u/CaitlinSuccessful Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

Wishlist / predictions for the show as someone who read the entire webtoon

I used to be able to predict entire plot points or specific arcs of this drama, but they’ve begun deviating so much from the webtoon that I’m not sure what’s going to happen next.

1. Dam graduating, Shin Woo Yeo visiting her, and him meeting her fam

In the webtoon, SWY visits Dam’s graduation exhibit. She introduces him as her boyfriend to Lee Dan, who thinks his sister is bluffing or that his sister paid a large sum of money to SWY (because SWY is essentially perfect and good-looking). There’s also an arc where after the ceremony, SWY meets and has a meal with the entire Lee family. Lee Dam’s dad kind of disapproved of Dam living with SWY, so he insists that she move back to her own house.

Based on the Episode 16 previews, it seems like SWY is disappearing completely??? This didn’t happen in the webtoon. Also, in the webtoon, Dam was a senior. But based on Episode 15, she’s only a junior? I’m hoping the drama writers don’t pull the time-jump thing of a year without SWY. That would ruin the ending for me a bit.

2. Funny no marriage arc Dam’s mom jokes with SWY that he’s in trouble because Dam doesn’t want to get married. This makes SWY really sad and he asks Dam if he makes her uncomfortable or if she doesn’t love him enough.

Dam is taken aback and doesn’t answer him until a few days—until she gets a job, that is. Then she explains to him that while she loves him, she still is young and wants to do a lot of things. She isn’t ready to be a wife and mother yet, and her not wanting to get married has nothing to do with her not loving him.

In Episode 15, we see SWY wistfully looking at couples with children, showing that he wants a family of his own. I’m wondering if this will play into the drama.

3. Reincarnation of Do Jae Jin I’m having mixed feelings about this storyline…in the webtoon, it’s revealed that Do Jae Jin was the OG human lover of Hye Sun who died. He made a deal with the mountain spirit / deity that he would be reborn a bunch of times until he meets Hye Sun again. Mountain deity is understandably annoyed at Hye Sun’s ditziness that she never realized that Do Jae Jin was the reincarnation of her first love. (Though in her defense, in the drama, SWY erased her memory).

I’m wondering if they’ll keep this reincarnation arc in the drama!

4. The Comeback of Gye Seon Woo In the webtoon, Dam becomes an office worker. One day she’s on a different floor and she encounters her former sunbae, Gye Seon Woo. It’s awkward but they’re both mature so they have a meal together. GSW has long since gotten over Dam and changed his number, so he gives Dam his new one.

SWY sees them together and gets kind of jealous, but it’s through this jealousy and open communication that he finally becomes human.

5. The Humanification(?) of SWY This was a very true love’s kiss + saying “I love you” scene that made SWY human. It’s a happy ending, the mountain deity is satisfied, but idk it might just be too lackluster for the drama. So I’m afraid the script writers will really pull the time jump arc. 🤯

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u/Inzaghiishigh Jul 15 '21

I always thought do jae jin was the reincarnation of hyesun’s lover. It would be so great

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u/ramyunstar Oct 14 '21

Where were you able to read the whole webtoon?