My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho · Season 1 · Episode 16 · 30 September 2010
S1E16 Episode 16
THE MOMENT The final revelation about Mi-ho's fate and what Dae-woong chooses to do - the series' emotional payoff landing on a scene audiences have revisited for years.
The finale resolves the central tension - the cost of Mi-ho's humanity - with an emotional directness that the series had been building toward across sixteen episodes. The ending became one of the more discussed resolutions in early 2010s K-drama fandom, cited as a template for the genre's later evolution.
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My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho Season 1 Episode 16 aired September 30, 2010 on SBS as the finale of a supernatural romance that accumulated over 180 million views on Chinese platform Youku and was named Favourite Drama of 2010 by DramaBeans. Lee Seung-gi and Shin Min-a won Excellence Awards at the SBS Drama Awards. The finale resolves the show's central emotional premise - whether Mi-ho's transformation to human is achievable and at what cost - with an emotional directness the series had been building toward across sixteen episodes. The ending became one of the more discussed resolutions in early 2010s K-drama fandom, cited as a template for how the supernatural romance genre handles sacrifice and continuity. The final revelation about Mi-ho's fate and Dae-woong's response constitute the episode's primary legacy.