If Wishes Could Kill is an eight-episode K-drama about a group of school friends who get mixed up with a deadly app. The app, called Girigo, grants wishes. All someone has to do is submit a recorded video of him or herself making their wish with their name and birthdate visible, and their wish will be granted. But, as is often the case with these kinds of monkey’s paws, the granting of a wish comes at a great cost—the wishmaker’s life. Once someone’s wish is granted, a 24-hour countdown on the app will start. Once it hits zero, the wishtaker will die.
Over the course of the series, the surviving friends learn more about the rules of the curse, including that a wishmaker’s countdown will stop once someone else makes a wish. In this way, Girigo has a kind of chain letter logic—you can evade the negative consequences of the curse by convincing someone else to make a wish. Also, only those who have made a wish can see the ghosts that drive the curse. Because of this, they are vulnerable to tricks, including receiving texts and calls designed to convince them their loved ones are talking behind their backs.
All of the wishes made in If Wishes Could Kill
Later, with Geon-woo facing seemingly certain death, Se-ah makes a wish to save her boyfriend, which starts her own countdown. With time running out, Se-ah travels with Ha-joon to visit Ha-joon’s older sister, Ha-sal (Jeon So-nee), who is a powerful shaman. Ha-sal lives in the countryside with her boyfriend and fellow shaman Bang Ui (Roh Jae-won).
Shamans have always been a part of life in Korea, but they have faced some prejudice and stigma in modern society. That being said, shamans are currently experiencing a moment in Korean pop culture that recontextualizes mu-dang as hip. There have been several recent reality competition shows featuring Korean shamans, including 2026’s Battle of the Fates on Disney+. In 2024, horror film Exhuma—which is about a group of shamans working to quell a violent and vengeful spirit—became a breakout hit in Korea and internationally. If Wishes Could Kill represents shamanism in a similar way to Exhuma, depicting its shaman characters as low-key warriors capable of great sacrifice and power.
'If Wishes Could Kill' —Courtesy of NetflixWho are Kim Si-won and Do Hye-rung?
Si-won was also a tech genius, and worked an app coding challenge with some of the most popular kids in school, including Hye-rung’s crush Gi-tae. When one of the group suggested a wish-making app that incorporates shamanism, Si-won went along with it, desperate to stop discussing anything that could expose her relationship to her “quack” mother.
A humiliated Hye-rung used the app to wish death on Si-won and Gi-tae before killing herself. The wish worked. But before she died, Si-won made her own blood-soaked wish, giving a terrible, ongoing power to the Girigo app. It is the spirit of Si-won that drives the malevolence of the app, though Hye-rung is also trapped by the curse’s power.
'If Wishes Could Kill' —Courtesy of NetflixIn one of the great tragedies of the series, Na-ri turns against her friends. Guilt-ridden about Hyeon-wook’s death and tricked into thinking her friends didn’t care whether she lived or died by Si-won, Na-ri becomes one of the series’ antagonists. Though Na-ri is possessed by Si-won at points, she ultimately chooses of her own free will to try to kill Se-ah. Se-ah must fight Na-ri off again in the spirit world, killing her in self-defense. After taking down her former friend, Se-ah finds Si-won’s phone and destroys it with one of Ha-sal’s arrows. The curse is broken, and Si-won and Hye-rung finally seem able to move on.
If Wishes Could Kill Season 2
The ending of If Wishes Could Kill leaves the door open for another installment of this series, either with the same characters or with a new set of characters. In the series’ epilogue, Hyeon-wook’s Discord friend, who was the person to originally tell him about Girigo, seeks out Na-ri’s abandoned phone on the school campus. He is led to the phone by a mysterious contact on Discord, who also has the passcode for the phone. When he unlocks Na-ri’s phone, the app is still installed, implying it could be used again.
It’s not clear who the person on the other side of the Discord message is, but it’s possible the messages are being sent by the spirit of Na-ri. Not only would she know where she left her phone and the phone’s password, but she also has a bone to pick with her friends, whom she sees as having betrayed her. We know that the Girigo curse cannot work without someone’s bloody wish at the heart of it; could Na-ri have started a new iteration of the curse before she died?
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