# The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost is a 2011 South Korean horror webcomic by cartoonist Ho-Rang that uses JavaScript scroll triggers to spring two frame-by-frame animated jump scares on the reader. First published on Naver Webtoon as a contest entry, it reached English-speaking audiences that October after PewDiePie filmed himself reading it, making filmed reactions the default way the comic spread. ## Origin Korean web cartoonist Ho-Rang wrote and illustrated The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost as his entry to Naver Webtoon's 2011 Mystery Short contest, which accepted submissions from July 12 through September 13, 2011[3]. The comic was hosted on Korea's Naver Webtoon portal and later received an official English translation on the same platform[1]. The plot follows a Korean schoolgirl walking home from after-school study hall at 11:20 PM, who meets a woman at her apartment complex asking about a baby[3]. After the girl tries to trick the figure and flee, it chases her down and she passes out, with neighbors later identifying the attacker as the ghost of Mrs. Cho, who ended her life after losing custody of her two-year-old daughter[3]. - **Platform:** Naver Webtoon (viral spread via YouTube) - **Creator:** Ho-Rang - **Date:** 2011 ## Overview The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost reads as a scrolling vertical page where still horror panels are interrupted twice by scripted auto-scroll sequences that force the browser to animate Mrs. Cho's face in motion[1]. The first scripted moment shows her head rotating 180 degrees to face the schoolgirl, and the second shows her lunging at the protagonist, both achieved with JavaScript rather than embedded video[3]. Right-click is disabled on the page so readers cannot save frames, and starting from the bottom only delays the trigger instead of canceling it[3]. Quick up-and-down scrolling activates the scares in a glitched way, but there is no clean path through the comic that skips them, which is part of why filmed reactions became the main way audiences encountered the story[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost? A 2011 Korean horror webcomic by Ho-Rang that uses JavaScript scroll triggers to animate two jump scares featuring the ghost of a woman named Mrs. Cho[3]. ### Where did The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost come from? Ho-Rang submitted it to Naver Webtoon's 2011 Mystery Short contest, which ran from July 12 to September 13, 2011[1]. ### What does The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost mean? The title names the Bongcheon neighborhood of Seoul where the fictional encounter takes place, and the story explains the ghost as Mrs. Cho, who died after losing custody of her two-year-old daughter[3]. ### How do you use The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost? Readers typically share the Naver link and film their reaction as the scripted auto-scroll triggers the two animated frights, since the scares cannot be skipped by scrolling tricks[3]. ### Is The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost still popular? The comic is a classic of the scroll-triggered horror webtoon format and is still hosted in Korean and English on Naver, with Ho-Rang's follow-up Ok-su Station Ghost listed alongside it[1][6]. ## References 1. [https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=20&weekday=tue]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vI0Wmxc2cY]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-bongcheon-dong-ghost]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKk01Jq2xcw]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4dJZ_EdF0c]() 6. [https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tue]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/the-bongcheon-dong-ghost Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library