The horror webtoon that moves is almost always Bongcheon-Dong Ghost, a 2011 short by the Korean artist Horang. Twice in one short episode, the still panels turn into animation and the ghost comes at you, with sound. As of October 30, 2026 it is free in English as Episode 22 of WEBTOON's Chiller anthology. Its older sibling, The Ghost of Oksu Station, is free too, in a 2020 remaster.
If you are trying to find a comic that made you jump years ago, it is probably one of these two. If you have never read either, read them tonight, alone, with the volume up. They are short, and the trick still works.
Which horror webtoon moves? Bongcheon-Dong Ghost
It is Bongcheon-Dong Ghost. Wikipedia credits it to Horang, the pen name of artist Choi Jong-ho, and dates its Naver Webtoon launch to August 23, 2011. The English version is on WEBTOON as Episode 22 of Chiller, listed as "Bongcheon-Dong Ghost - Horang" and dated November 1, 2015.
Screenshot: WEBTOON, Chiller Episode 22 "Bongcheon-Dong Ghost" by Horang, October 23, 2026.
We read it on WEBTOON's English website on October 23, 2026. It opens like a dare. A white card warns that "the following is a special Chiller thriller which may include shocking scenes," and advises discretion "for pregnant women, the elderly, and those with weak hearts." A second line tells you to "turn up your volume." Then the title card claims the story "is based on true eyewitness accounts."
The story itself is simple. "It was around 11:20 that night," the narrator says, a student walking home from late study sessions through an empty apartment complex. She catches up with a woman in "dirty pink pajamas" who looks "as if all her joints in her body had been twisted." Wikipedia's summary has the rest: the ghost is looking for her baby, and the frightened student points in a random direction to get away from her. We'll stop there. The point is the two moments Wikipedia singles out: "The ghost's head suddenly rotates 180 degrees when the student first approaches her, and the rapid attack of the ghost is similarly animated."
How does a horror webtoon that moves work?
The comic is built for the screen: the page animates its drawings and plays sound. The Korea Times described the technique in 2015: Horang's earlier short "included 3D-like effects," and Bongcheon-dong Ghost "featured even more advanced effects," including a scene where the ghost's "horrific bloody face" seemed "to fly towards the viewers as it made a creepy, riveting sound." The paper calls this kind of comic a "smarttoon": special effects give static drawings "movement and sound," or, for smartphone readers, "vibration." It also notes that horror is where smarttoons gather, because those effects "work well in scaring viewers."
You can see the machinery on WEBTOON today. Most episodes load as a strip of images. The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost page instead loads WEBTOON's motiontoon viewer and two sound files, one of them named headturn.mp3. Scrolling through it on a desktop browser, we watched panels slide in and stack over each other as the page played them, instead of sitting still.
Readers have been describing it the same way for years. In an r/horror thread on Bongcheon-Dong Ghost, one commenter explained the effect: "the images suddenly run together like a video when the crazy lady is coming at the main character." Not everyone was impressed. Another wrote, "Eh, jump scares are a cheap way to scare people." Both are right. It is a jump scare, but the slow walk before it does most of the work.
The Ghost of Oksu Station: the one that came first
The Ghost of Oksu Station came first, by a month. The Korea Times dates Horang's "Ok-su Station Ghost" to July 2011 on Naver, and describes its signature effect: "the large hand of a ghost jumped right out of the screen as if to grab the viewers." Wikipedia lists Bongcheon-Dong Ghost as its follow-up.
Screenshot: WEBTOON, Horang's Nightmare Episode 9 "The Ghost of Oksu Station (Remastered)", October 23, 2026.
The English version to read is the remaster. It is Episode 9 of Horang's Nightmare, dated October 26, 2020. The regular episode page shows a short preview and a link that says "Click below to read full episode." The full remaster sits on a separate WEBTOON page, which opened in our desktop browser on October 23, 2026, with a "BGM ON" switch in the corner. It opens with its own warning ("visuals and audio that may be shocking for some readers") and asks you to "turn on sound" before you scroll.
We read the whole remaster. It begins on a nearly empty platform: "Whew... I made it just in time for the last train." The young man spots a woman swaying on the platform and starts posting about her to an online board for laughs, and the strangers' replies appear in the panels. This one leans on a slow build instead of a single lunge. The board's comment thread is the clever part, because you watch other people decide what the woman is before the narrator does.
Where to read the horror webtoons that move in English
Both read free on WEBTOON's website, checked October 30, 2026: Chiller's list shows all 37 episodes on the web, Horang's Nightmare all 10, with no coin or app-only episodes, both stories opened without a login, and both series pages are marked completed.
| Story | Where on WEBTOON | English date |
|---|---|---|
| Bongcheon-Dong Ghost | Chiller, Episode 22 | Nov 1, 2015 |
| Knock Knock (also by Horang) | Chiller, Episode 21 | Oct 31, 2015 |
| The Ghost of Oksu Station (Remastered) | Horang's Nightmare, Episode 9 | Oct 26, 2020 |
| The Ghost of Bongcheon-dong (Remastered) | Horang's Nightmare, Episode 10 | Nov 2, 2020 |
Chiller is a 37-episode anthology by various artists that ran from September 11 to December 25, 2015; its page shows 29.4M views. Horang's Nightmare is ten episodes, all Horang, posted weekly from August 31 to November 2, 2020. WEBTOON's blurb calls him "Korea's master of horror." The series page shows 24.9M views and 728,143 subscribers, and its most-liked episode is the first, "The Ghost in the School Stairwell."
WEBTOON's own YouTube channel posted a reaction video of its staff reading the series:
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Our take
Read Bongcheon-Dong Ghost first, on a computer, with the lights off and the sound on. It is one short episode, and it still works because Horang makes you wait. You walk behind that woman for a long time before anything moves. Then read the Oksu Station remaster, which is the better story of the two even if its scare is less famous. If they leave you wanting more, Horang's Nightmare has eight more short episodes besides the two remasters (ten in all), and our best horror manhwa list has longer series. For something that never animates but gets under your skin, try our picks of zombie manhwa or vampire manhwa.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the horror webtoon that moves?
Usually Bongcheon-Dong Ghost by Horang, a 2011 Korean short in which the ghost's head turns and her attack is animated. Its English version is Episode 22 of WEBTOON's Chiller anthology.
Is Bongcheon-Dong Ghost free to read?
Yes. It sits in WEBTOON's completed Chiller anthology. Checked October 30, 2026: Episode 22 opened on the English website without coins or a login, and the series page lists every episode on the web, none held for the app.
Is there a sequel to Bongcheon-Dong Ghost?
Not a sequel. Horang's Ok-su Station Ghost came out a month earlier in 2011, and a remastered version is Episode 9 of Horang's Nightmare on WEBTOON.
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How we checked this
We read Bongcheon-Dong Ghost (Chiller, Episode 22) and the full remaster of The Ghost of Oksu Station (Horang's Nightmare, Episode 9) on WEBTOON's English website in a desktop browser on October 23, 2026; quotes from the episodes are from those pages. Episode dates, view and subscriber counts are from the two series pages the same day. On October 30, 2026 we opened both series pages and both episodes again to confirm they are still free on the website. Background and the history of the effects come from Wikipedia and a 2015 Korea Times feature.
Last reviewed: October 30, 2026
