South Korea

South Korean horror runs on grudges. The gwishin — pale, long-haired, dressed in white — lingers because something was left unfinished, and Korean urban legends give her endless reasons: the elevator game said to carry players to another floor of reality, the Jangsan-beom, a tiger-like mimic that lures hikers by imitating human voices near Busan’s Jangsan mountain, and Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, whose abandoned wards became so notorious they were demolished in 2018. This archive gathers Korean ghost stories and modern legends — school hauntings, cursed songs, subway apparitions, and the real histories underneath them — alongside the folklore that predates them all.