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Illustration of a Gumiho as a beautiful woman with nine luminous fox tails in a moonlit Korean forest.

Gumiho (구미호): The Korean Nine-Tailed Fox

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November 18, 2025
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The Gumiho (구미호), sometimes spelled Kumiho in older romanization, is one of the most iconic and complex figures in Korean mythology. She is a fox spirit with nine tails, a creature both feared and desired, and a symbol of the dangerous intersection of beauty, appetite, and transformation. While similar in broad outline to the Japanese kitsune and Chinese huli jing,
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