A centuries-old fox spirit trading the mountains for city streets makes for an unusual premise, and Tale of the Nine Tailed builds a full fantasy drama around exactly that idea.
What is Tale Of The Nine Tailed about?
The Korean series centers on a nine-tailed fox who has taken human form and settled into ordinary city life after guarding a mountain for hundreds of years, only for his quiet routine to unravel when a television producer starts investigating strange occurrences tied to him. Her search for a story pulls her steadily closer to a supernatural world she never expected to find sitting inside a modern city, and the two are drawn into a shared mystery that mixes old folklore with present-day settings like newsrooms, apartments, and city streets. Alongside them, other figures tied to the same legend circle the edges of the plot, each carrying their own reasons for wanting the fox spirit found, protected, or stopped. The show moves between eerie, folklore-driven set pieces and grounded human drama, letting a very old myth play out among characters who otherwise look like anyone working in a contemporary city.
About the cast
Lee Dong-wook and Jo Bo-ah lead an ensemble that also includes Kim Bum, Kim Yong-ji, Hwang Hee, Kim Jung-nan, Ahn Kil-kang, and Kim Hee-jung, under the direction of Kang Shin-hyo. The cast spans both the folklore side of the story and its modern-day setting, giving the series room to move between the two registers scene by scene.
Context & significance
Tale of the Nine Tailed draws on a fox-spirit figure with deep roots across East Asian folklore, recasting a shape-shifting guardian as a character navigating a present-day city rather than a purely mythic landscape. That pairing of old legend with a modern setting is part of what gives the 2020 series its particular flavor within Korean fantasy drama, a genre that often blends supernatural elements with everyday settings like offices and television newsrooms. For viewers newer to Korean fantasy storytelling, the series works as a way into that folklore tradition without requiring prior familiarity with the myth, since the show introduces its supernatural rules gradually as the human characters do.
Watching Tale Of The Nine Tailed on Ktime
Tale of the Nine Tailed is available on K-Time with a Farsi dub and Farsi subtitles, giving viewers the choice of following the story in either form. The catalogue page is free to browse, and streaming the series only requires a K-Time account login, with a Farsi-language interface designed for Persian-speaking audiences everywhere.