Wish Fulfillment
Places said to hear one heartfelt wish.
A few places are visited for whatever the visitor most needs rather than for one named blessing. Korea keeps a set phrase for them: pray with a whole heart, the saying goes, and one wish will be heard. This collection gathers places that carry that reputation, and each page records where it comes from, whether the institution's own account or a tradition with centuries behind it. The tag records the reputation, not a promise.
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Places in this collection
ShrineKifune Jinja
- Love & Romance
- Money & Prosperity
- Protection & Safety
A shrine to Kifune Okami, the deity governing the supply of water — and long famous as the shrine of love, with a subordinate shrine to a deity of matchmaking.
TempleHaedong Yonggungsa
- Wish Fulfillment
One of Korea’s three great Avalokitesvara sites, standing right on the sea.
TempleGatbawi
- Exams & Study
- Wish Fulfillment
A Unified Silla stone Buddha seated on the summit of Gwanbong on Palgongsan, and the busiest prayer site in the country in the weeks before the university entrance exam.
TempleBoriam
- Wish Fulfillment
An Avalokiteśvara prayer site on the slope of Geumsan, counted with Hongryeonam and Bomunsa among Korea’s three great sites.
TempleBomunsa
- Wish Fulfillment
Counted with Boriam and Hongryeonam among Korea’s three great Avalokiteśvara sites, with a stone chamber holding figures said to have come up in a fisherman’s net.
TempleHongryeonam
- Wish Fulfillment
A hermitage built where Uisang is said to have met Avalokiteśvara, its hall raised so the sea can be seen moving beneath the floor.
TempleHyangiram
- Wish Fulfillment
One of the country’s four sea-facing Avalokiteshvara prayer halls, named "facing the sun" for the sunrise seen from it.
ShrineMiyajidake Shrine
- Wish Fulfillment
Empress Jingu is said to have prayed from this mountaintop before sailing — “grant me, I pray, an opening of fortune” — and the deity here is revered as one who grants any wish at all.
ShrineKashihara Jingu
- Health & Healing
- Wish Fulfillment
A shrine to Emperor Jimmu, enshrined and founded on 2 April 1890, whose stated virtues are good fortune, long life and health, among others.
ShrineKatsuragi Hitokotonushi Shrine
- Wish Fulfillment
A shrine to Hitokotonushi, revered as a deity who will hear any wish at all, so long as it is a single wish.
TempleMatsuo-dera
- Protection & Safety
- Wish Fulfillment
Built in 718 by Prince Toneri while he was compiling the Nihon Shoki, at forty-two and in his unlucky year, praying that the book be completed safely and misfortune warded off.
ShrineMihashira Shrine
- Career & Work
- Wish Fulfillment
A shrine of victory, fulfilment and comeback, enshrining Tachibana Muneshige, his father-in-law Bekki Dosetsu, and his wife Ginchiyo.
ShrineHorikoshi Jinja
- Wish Fulfillment
Founded by Prince Shotoku at the same time as Shitenno-ji in memory of his uncle Emperor Sushun, and said to grant one wish in a lifetime.
TempleDoseonsa
- Wish Fulfillment
Founded by Doseon in 862, with a rock-carved Avalokiteshvara he is said to have split the stone by hand to cut, and a stream of people who come to pray.
TempleJungakdan, Sinwonsa
- Wish Fulfillment
The only survivor of the three royal mountain-god altars of Joseon stands in the grounds of Sinwonsa on Gyeryongsan.