Mystery drama 'Achiara' to be web cartoon

New TV mystery drama “The Village: Achiara’s Secret” will made into a web cartoon before its premier on Oct. 7 on SBS.

So far, famous web cartoons such as “The Girl Who Sees Smells” and “Hyde, Jekyll, Me” have been made into dramas, but it is the first time a drama has been made into a web cartoon.

Actress Moon Geun-young stars in the new drama with K-pop idol star BTB’s Yook Sung-jae. There are 24 episodes.

The web cartoon’s first episode will be released on Oct. 1, and each new episode will be uploaded about 12 a.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Achiara is a Korean word meaning a "small pond."

Moon, 29, will play Kim So-yoon, an English teacher newly appointed to the village. Yook, 21, will play a policeman, Park Woo-jae.

When So-yoon arrives in Achiara, a small and peaceful crime-free village, she finds a buried body on her first day at school. So-yoon and Woo-jae try to find the truth about the body and the village.