Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum is a 2018 South Korean found footage horror film directed by Jung Bum-shik, following a web series crew who livestream an exploration of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. The location was inspired by the real Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital in Gwangju, long rumored in urban legends to be haunted. The film became a major box office hit in South Korea, and its quieter scare moments later circulated on social media as reaction clips and horror edit audio, with the whisper scene reused whenever creators need a believable ghostly presence.