Need some help: Korean heroine

[FenrisUlf]

I'd like to ask if anyone here knows anything in particular about Korean culture and myth, both 'back home' and here in the USA, esp. as relates to war orphans from the Korean war.

I'm asking because I'm thinking of doing something with a descendant of Kumiho (the Korean fox-woman mentioned in UNTIL: Defender of Freedom), as a part-Korean woman raised in the US until her supernatural heritage manifests and she becomes a kumiho herself.

Also, if anyone has any knowledge of Korean legendry concerning fox spirits, I'd appreciate that too. Right now all I know is that kumiho are utterly malevolent beings, very hateful towards humans (though my Kumiho's being an outcast from a bad-guy, er, gal, race makes for a fine origin and Hunted), tend to hang out in graveyards where they perform various unsavory acts, and enjoy seducing men to their doom -- usually after killing their entire family along the way. Oh, and they very often have a vampiric taste for human life-force as well.

Any help will be vastly appreciated.

[SirViss]

Check out the Korean section of Encyclopedia Mythica (http://pantheon.org/areas/mythology/asia/korean/articles.html).

The Kumiho is listed on the left.

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[FenrisUlf]

Thanks, Sir Viss.

I did notice that, interestingly enough considering that The Ultimate Metamorph is coming out soon, that in Korean myth duels of magic take the form of contests of shapeshifting (think Merlin and Madam Mim from Sword in the Stone). I think that a master shapeshifter like the kumiho would enjoy that sort of challenge!