Ji Chang-wook seeks healing in KBS’s If You Wish Upon Me

by tccolb

It’s time to dig out those tissues boxes again because the promos are heading into full gear for KBS’s melodrama If You Wish Upon Me and when Ji Chang-wook (The Sound of Magic) cries, I cry.

Inspired by the real-life Dutch foundation, who strive to fulfill the last wishes of palliative patients, the drama imagines a hospice in South Korea who aims to do the same. In this story, Ji Chang-wook plays Yoon Kye-rae – a man who lives day-by-day with no dreams for the future. He’s described as a “broken grown-up child” and has a habit of getting tattoos to feel the pain. But his jaded heart is shaken when he meets people at the hospice and hope starts to grow inside of him.

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The teaser begins with our hero getting hit in the face and we briefly flash back to the violence in his childhood. Back in the present, Sooyoung (Run On) asks him about happy moments in his life. But Yoon replies that he doesn’t have any. As we see him getting into more fights, he wonders how his life turned out this way and desperately pleads, “Let’s try living an ordinary life like other people. We’re allowed to do that!” The video then quickly closes on a teary-eyed Yoon.

Written by Jo Ryung-soo and directed by PD Kim Yong-wan (The Cursed), KBS’s If You Wish Upon Me premieres August 10 in the Wednesday-Thursday slot.