2023
16 eps
SBS
Romance Fantasy Comedy
A demon who feeds on human desires loses his powers and enters a contract marriage with a fearless heiress.
Like My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, it leans hard into supernatural romance. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same whimsical and romantic energy throughout.
2025
12 eps
tvN
Fantasy Romance Drama
The last deity in charge of spring — responsible for renewal, growth, and the particular grief of things ending so other things can begin — has been demoted to human form as punish…
Like My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, The Last God of Spring is built around fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure. The emotional territory — mortality — is the same. Same whimsical and romantic energy throughout.
2021
16 eps
tvN
Fantasy Romance Comedy
A 999-year-old fox spirit accidentally swallows a college student's fox bead and they must live together.
Like My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, it leans hard into supernatural romance. The pacing is pure fun — the kind you don't have to feel guilty about.
2017
16 eps
tvN
Fantasy Romance Comedy
The water god Habaek descends to the human world to retrieve divine stones — and by ancient prophecy, a human woman named So-ah is destined to serve as his guide. The problem: she'…
If you loved My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, The Bride of Habaek delivers exactly that. Same whimsical and romantic energy throughout.
2016
16 eps
tvN
Fantasy Romance Comedy
An immortal goblin seeks his bride to end his cursed immortality, finding unexpected love and friendship.
Like My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, it leans hard into supernatural romance. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same whimsical energy throughout.
2019
32 eps
KBS2
Romance Fantasy Comedy
A mischievous heavenly angel is given one last mission before earning his wings: find the one person a cold, blind prima ballerina can truly love. The catch? He's strictly forbidde…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same whimsical and romantic energy throughout.
2023
16 eps
tvN
Romance Fantasy Comedy
A civil servant finds a spell book sealed for 300 years and accidentally binds herself to a cold lawyer through a love spell.
Like My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, it leans hard into supernatural romance. Same whimsical and romantic energy throughout.
2016
20 eps
KBS
Fantasy Romance Comedy
A mermaid from the Joseon era and a con man karma-reconnect across lifetimes in modern Seoul.
If you loved My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Knight Runner delivers exactly that. Same whimsical and romantic energy throughout.
2019
16 eps
tvN
Fantasy Romance Drama
A hotelier bound to a hotel for ghosts gets a new human manager and confronts her painful past.
Like My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, it leans hard into supernatural romance. Same whimsical energy throughout.
2013
17 eps
SBS
Romance Comedy Fantasy
A woman who sees ghosts finds that a cold CEO is the only one who can make them disappear when she touches him.
Like My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, it leans hard into supernatural romance. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.