If Wishes Could Kill (2026) ~ There’s an App for Wishes, But It’s Deadly!

By cmoneyspinner - April 26, 2026

“If Wishes Could Kill” is a 2026 Korean drama, 8 episodes, categorized as Youth, High School, Teens, Horror, Fantasy, Supernatural, and Mystery, and streaming on Netflix.

Memorable Quote: “The rules are simple. You write down your saju, and then you make a wish. The wish comes true.”

SUMMARY: A mysterious app grants high school students their deepest wishes, but each fulfilled desire triggers a countdown to their death.

♦ Why Do You Need My Saju?

In “If Wishes Could Kill”, five friends discover a mysterious app. You know when people say, “If something sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t good?” Why do people always ignore that warning?

NOTE: The “saju” is the “four pillars”. It is the Korean system of fortune-telling based on the “Four Pillars of Destiny,” which analyzes a person’s birth year, month, day, and hour to interpret personality, fate, and life patterns.

Here’s the thing. If you’re going to grant my wish, then grant it! Why do I need to provide personal identifying details? Sounds suspicious to me. But that’s just me.

Yoo Se-Ah, Lim Na-Ri, Kim Geon-Woo, Kang Ha-Joon, and Choi Hyeong-Wook weren’t suspicious at all. At least, not at first.

But I Didn’t Mean Any Harm By My Wish!

In “If Wishes Could Kill”, five students become entangled in a deadly supernatural mystery after discovering a strange mobile application called Girigo (“to commemorate”). The app promises to grant any wish. However, each fulfilled desire triggers a countdown to the user’s death. It gets worse. The app is not just predicting death… it is causing it.

Choi Hyeong-Wook is the tragic figure in this storyline. His use of the app triggers consequences that ripple through the group. What happened to him made the others realize that a wish can produce unintended harm. One person’s wish can doom another.

Yoo Se-Ah, a talented track-and-field athlete, whose disciplined life is shattered when a classmate dies under mysterious circumstances. It happened shortly after the classmate used a wish-granting app. Yoo Se-Ah wants to uncover the truth. Is it an app or a curse? She needs to know.
Kim Geon-Woo is Yoo Se-Ah’s secret boyfriend. He is desperate to protect her, even at the cost of his own safety.
Lim Na-Ri is Yoo Se-Ah’s friend, who gets drawn into the curse after making a seemingly harmless wish. Of course, her mental state begins to unravel, knowing her own death is scheduled.
Kang Ha-Joon is the geek of the group. He’s analytical, tech-savvy, and decides to try to decode the app and determine its origins. Fortunately for him, his sister is a shaman. She can probably explain the supernatural elements. This wish-granting app isn’t just an app. It’s got some other-worldly powers. The shaman’s rituals and warnings suggest that the curse is not merely technological but spiritual. There’s a malevolent force behind the app. Can the group break their own curse?

Main Characters:

Yoo Se-Ah (played by Jeon So-Young, “KICKKICKKICKKICK”)
Lim Na-Ri (played by Kang Mi-Na, “Usury Academy”, “Hotel Del Luna”, “Welcome to Samdal-ri”, “Cafe Minamdang”, “Moonshine”)
Kim Geon-Woo (played by Baek Sun-Ho, “Dongjae, the Good or the Bastard” – TBR)
Kang Ha-Joon (played by Hyeon Woo-Seok, “The School Nurse Files”)
Choi Hyeong-Wook (played by Lee Hyo-Je, “Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned”)

TBR = To Be Reviewed. Check back later.

Where to Watch

Viewership and Rating:

IMDb: 7.3 out of 10 stars
My Drama List: 8 out of 10 stars

My personal rating is the same as IMDb.

This excerpt from the DMT review says it best: “The high-school K-drama projects itself as a blend of horror elite Revenant and high school shows like All Of Us Are Dead and Night Has Come. To be fair, it’s not really like any of those shows, so in that way it’s quite original.”

To my surprise, viewers are already buzzing about a Season 2.