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In the past few decades, South Korea became globally known for stylish and eerie horror stories through movies like A Tale of Two Sisters, The Wailing, and Whispering Corridors. But horror has not been quite as integral an element in the success of Korean dramas. While series like zombie horror All of Us Are Dead or monster drama Sweet Home have found massive success, there has yet to be an occult K-drama that truly breaks through. If Wishes Could Kill, with its clever mix of teen drama, tech horror, and occult mystery, stands to break the curse. The reimagining of an age-old ghost story is an intriguing blend of Korean folk tradition and modern tech anxieties that keeps viewers guessing until the very end.
How does Girigo’s curse work?
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.
When class clown Hyeon-wook (Lee Hyo-je) uses the app to wish for a perfect score on his next math test, he is ignorant of the cost. When he aces the test, he happily tells friends Se-ah (Jeon So-young), Geon-woo (Baek Sun-ho), Na-ri (Kang Mi-na), and Ha-joon (Hyun Woo-seok) about Girigo, sending them a link to what he thinks is a godsend. They don’t take the app seriously, until Hyeon-wook cuts his own throat in front of their class, seemingly driven by an unseen force.
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…
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