The series introduces South Korean readers to different countries around the world, their history, geography, and culture, through the eponymous treasure hunt for a lost, hidden, or stolen artifact that is culturally or historically significant to the particular country.
It mentions historical ties between South Korea and the country being visited. In translations for different countries, this introduction is changed accordingly for its target demographic.
The primary character of the series is the young but precocious Pang-Yi who accompanies his uncle, the Professor Gu-Bon, on various foreign trips for historical studies. They encounter a clue to a lost item, and the hunt would take them across the country, bringing them to sights and experiences significant to said country.
Pang-Yi's rival is Do To-ri, a child prodigy, though they are willing to work together occasionally.
| Name | Korean Name | Country | Birthday | Description |
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| Han Songi | 한송이 | Iraq | 5 October | Pangyi's friend. She is a member of UNESCO. |
| Wang Meiling | 메이링 | China | 3 May | Chinese fighter. |
| Bandi | 반디 | India | 23 October | A boy that looks like a girl because he never cut his hair. His religion is Sikh. |
| Mrs. Misra | | India | | A beautiful Indian woman. She is Tandoori's mother. Professor Ji Gubon has a crush on her. |
| Mr. Hudson | 하산 | Egypt | | An Egyptian oil millionaire. He wants Pangyi and Dotori team to help him hunting treasure in pyramid that he discovered. Yi Eun-ju has a crush on him. |
| Hawk | 빛나는 나뭇가지 | America | 29 April | Native American fighter. He is working part-time job as a tour guide at the Statue of Liberty. |
| Two Tailed Skank | 두 마리의 스컹크 | America | | No one know what his actual name is, but people call him Two Tailed Skank because his fart can separate into two lanes. |
| Akari | 아카리 | Japan | | A ninja kid and a bodyguard for the Geisha. |
| Kyonohana | 쿄노하나 | Japan | | Geisha. Her name means "the flower of the city". She keeps one fraction of Japanese sword. |
| Professor Kochu | 모범상 교수 | Japan | 10 September | A good old friend of Professor Ji Gu-bon. He is clumsy and lives in a small house full of books and documents. |
| Hera | 헤라 | Greece | 20 December | Her name is as same as the Greek goddess. She lives in Crete island. She likes Greek mythology. Both Pangyi and Dotori like her. |
| Nicos | | Greece | | Hera's father. He makes a fake treasure for Dr. Bong Palyi and regretted it. |
| Anne | 안나 | Germany | | An innocent sweet girl. She likes German history and playing piano. |
| Emir | 미하일 | Germany | | Anne's twin brother. He likes to play football. |
| Jens | | Germany | | Heruns away from his father because his father is a Nazi. He has his own house. He is Anne and Emir's father. |
| Karl | | Germany | | Jens's father, Anne and Emir's grandpa. He used to be a Nazi SS officer. Currently, he is an old man that lives in a hospital in Munich. He is the only Nazi left that know about the gold treasures. |
| Aborigine chieftain | 어보리진 족장 | Australia | | When he learns that the sacred boomerang was taken away by being deceived by the acting of an indigenous youth who had been given it by Bong-pal yi, he faints from shock, but soon regains his strength and asks Tori and the others for help. |
| Cupora | 쿠커버러 | Australia | | She announces an important clue that a suspicious person was discovered on the night the ancestor's spirit appeared and teaches Tori how to use a boomerang. |
| Maria | 마리아 박사 | Brazil | 13 July | A Brazilian natural explorer. She is Professor Ji Gubon's friend and he likes her, too. |
| Doriko | 토르코 | Brazil | 20 December | A student at the same soccer school as Pangi. Although he has a laid-back and optimistic personality, his soccer skills cannot be underestimated. He helps Pangi escape despite being captured by the instructor when he escapes the soccer school to watch the samba festival. While Pangi was wandering around looking for treasure, his soccer skills improved a lot. |
| Vice Professor Albert | 앨버트 경 | UK | | A rich English man. He is Professor Will's rival. He has a treasure of his own and he likes to make a competition for Pangyi vs Bong Palyi team. He wants them to battle to get his treasure. |
| Tom | 톰 | UK | 27 February | Student Council President received a message from 008. His parents died and later adopted by Dr. Bong Palyi. |
| Professor Mahmoud | 마흐무트 교수 | Turkey | 15 April | An architect. He is Nuree's father. He lies that he was Senan's relative. He was a Treasure Master. |
| Carlos valerón | 카를로스 바레론 | Spain | | From Catalonia. A guard guarding the treasure trove of the Alhambra Palace. He is the only witness to the crime scene, but when he learns that the person who stole El Cid's flag was his friend, he quits his job and returns to his hometown to condone it. |
| Julio | 훌리오 | Spain | | The criminal who stole El Cid's flag. He is a Basque and tries to negotiate with the Spanish government by stealing the flag of El Cid for the independence of his country, Basque Country. In the process, he tries to contact a colleague, but the colleague is captured by Paul and is later assaulted by Paul, but manages to escape and falls into a carriage. When he got on the carriage, Tori and his group were riding in it, and when he noticed that Tori and his group were chasing him, he quickly got back down and got hit by a car and fell into a coma. |
| Paul | 바울 | Spain | | A member of ETA, an armed group working for Basque independence. He is quite radical and shows a violent side, but he considers the moderates who want to achieve independence in a peaceful way to be traitors to the people who are delaying independence by hundreds of years by negotiating with them. Paul was also looking for the flag of El Cid, and unlike Julio, who wanted to use it for negotiations with the Spanish government, he wanted to express his will for Basque independence by burning the flag in front of all of Spain. |
| Enriqueta | 플라멩코 여성 | Spain | | A woman who appears as Bong-palyi's fiancée at a flamenco performance. First of all, she has a very arrogant personality. She openly compares Bong-palyi's subordinates with her own and calls them pathetic While having a good time with Bong-palyi such as going shopping together her subordinates watch over Paul threatening Dotori and her group. He believed it and went against Paul as he pleased, but instead her subordinates suffered and she herself ended up being captured. |
| Thani S. Silachai | 타닛 | Thailand | 17 January | A boxer that can fight using Muay Thai. |
| Kaew | | Thailand | | A flower seller in the street. She is Thani's younger sister. |
| Ruud van Basten | 얀 바스턴 | Netherlands | | An Art teacher of a university in Netherlands. He is secretly a Treasure Master. His surname is derived from the footballer Marco van Basten. |
| Mr. van Basten | 바스턴 씨 | Netherlands | | A fat man who likes cheese. He looks like Santa Claus. He is Ruud's father. |
| Emily | 에밀리 | Netherlands | | A Dutch florist. Her picture was founded in one of Rud's paintings. |
| Ugo | 차크 | Mexico | | He believes in Mexican ancient civilisations and rituals. He wants to sacrifice Professor Ji Gubon's heart for the ritual. |
| Billy | 빌리 | Canada | | Bart's best friend, first appears in Canada. He is a hockey player and a native Canadian. |
| Nguen Bun Hong | 훙 | Vietnam | | Loves to cook Pho. He is the third generation of chef after his father and grandfather. |
| Vinh | | Vietnam | | A professional Vietnamese chef. He wins the best chef of the year prize. |
| Vivika | 비비카 | Austria | 15 June | An adopted child of President Rudolf. She is a musician who can play violin really good. She is Catherine's cousin. |
| President Rudolf | 칼 마이스너 | Austria | | A rich Austrian man who adopted Vivika as his daughter. He is secretly a Treasure master. |
| Reyna | 레나 | Israel | | She wants to choose her own religion, but later she wants to be proudly Jewish just like her parents. |
| Jose | 호세 | Cuba | | A Cuban baseball player. |
| Amelia | 아멜리아 | Cuba | | Jose's aunt. She is a Cuban doctor. Professor Ji Gubon has a crush on her. |
| Anna | 안보니 | Cuba | | A pirate. She wants to steal all the treasure in the ocean. She is a relative of Davy Jones. |
| President Cecil White | 세실 화이트 | South Africa | | A British man who lives in South Africa during times when racism was present. |
| Tandy | 탄디 | South Africa | | A kid who likes football. She has many part-time jobs. |
| Rosa | 로사 | South Africa | | Tandy's aunt. She helps President White to find a rainbow diamond. She is also President White's crush. She is dead. |
| Lion King | 라이언 킹 | South Africa | | An antagonist. He is Tandy's boss and president White's nephew. She likes to support football. |
| Annette | 아네트 | Switzerland | 20 September | She is Pangyi's partner when they are hunting for treasure. She is a gold digger who likes to get money travel to another countries. |
| Schneider | | Switzerland | | Annette's father who was forced by his daughter to give her money. |
| George | 게오르그 | Switzerland | | He is a gangster who wants to steal the treasure, and has a crush on Annette. |
| Johann & Barbara | 발터와 벤더 | Switzerland | | The Swiss middle-aged couple who lend Annette and Pangyi their residence for free. |
| Raffi | 라위리 | New Zealand | 7 June | A Maori warrior whose grandfather is a tribal chief. He likes to play rugby. His favourite Rugby team is the All Blacks team. |
| Kena | 케냐 족장 | New Zealand | | Maori tribal chief. He used to be a Maori warrior. He wants his grandson Raffi to be a Maori warrior just like him. |
| Antonio | 안토니오 | Italy | | An Italian man from Milan. He asked Pangyi and Indy to find a treasure for him. He is a rival of Mario. |
| Mario | 마리오 | Italy | | An Italian man from Naples. He asked Dotori and Catherine to find a treasure for him. He is a rival of Antonio. |
| Francesca | 프란체스카 | Italy | | A greedy Italian woman who is obsessed with valuable treasures. She likes to make a redeem event for people to buy limited treasures. |
| Joseph | 조셉 | Philippines | | An orphan boy that was raised by father Martin at the church since he was a kid. |
| Father Martin | 마틴 신부 | Philippines | | A Filipino priest who raised many orphans at his church. |
| Jay | 제이 | Philippines | | An emotionless girl who was raised by father Martin since she was a kid after her parents died because of Typhoon. She was hired by Mark to find a treasure for him. She was forced to be a Treasure Master and betrayed on father Martin. |
| Professor Loyola | 로욜라 교수 | Philippines | | A Filipino archeologist that keeps the golden plate. |
| Irene | 아이린 | Philippines | | The daughter of Ita tribal chief. She works as the massage officer. |
| Count Fersen | 페르센 백작 | Sweden | 16 August | A Swedish guy who likes to hide treasure for a competition. Yi Eun-ju has a crush on him. He is also Dr. Bong Pal-yi's childhood partner in ancient India and Ancient Greek. |
| Ole | 올리 | Finland | | A Finnish university student who is struggle to find a treasure, so he asked Dotori and Doremi for help. He also has an twin brother who likes to cosplay as Moomin. |
| Santa Claus | | Finland | | He rescued Doremi from drowning incident. |
| Saya | 사야 | Peru | | A Peruvian kid who really respects her sister. She help Pangyi finds treasure in Peru. |
| Goya | 코야 | Peru | | Saya's older sister. She is a smart university student but got tricked by Dr. Bong Pal-Yi. |
| Franchi | 프란지 | Poland | | Believing that the red lion is his grandfather, he tries to find the treasure. He is a boy who never loses his smile |
| Marry | 메리 | Poland | | Franchi's mother Be kind and kind |
| Zhou Lunmi | 주륜미 | Taiwan | | A Mensa member and Jialun's cousin. Pang is a girl around Tori's age and has a brain as smart as Tori's She had a smart and intelligent personality. Go on a treasure hunt with Tori |
| Zhou Jialun | 주걸륜 | Taiwan | 20 November | He is a boy around Tori's age and has an exemplary and thoughtful personality. He cousin Lunmi, who goes on a treasure hunt with Pangi and teases him for being stupid. |
| Guanma | 관미 | Taiwan | | Lunmi and Jialun's grandmother. She runs a jade market in Taipei. |
| Carrel | 카렐 | Czechia | 20 February | He is a Czech boy who likes everything about occultism and black magic. He believes in the legend about Golem. He is also a wizard wannabe. He helps Catherine and Dotori to find Czech treasure. |
| Slakinski | 슬라킨스키 | Czechia | | A spy of treasure master that helps Mark to steal treasure in Czechia. | |
| Name | Korean Name | Dynasty/Era | Birth Date | Description |
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| Cheonjae | 천재 | Goguryeo | | He is Meiling's coach and has skills that are different from his name. As an aside, he is said to be a descendant of Yeon Namgeon, the son of Yeon Gaesomun. And He's a Chinese citizen. |
| Jyaojeumin | 쟈오즈민 | Goguryeo | | Although she is just like assistant teacher Eunjoo Lee, her skills are worlds apart Dating David |
| Do Gulwang | 도굴왕 | Baekje | | The legendary grave robber who found more treasures than any archaeologist ends with a mysterious statement in the epilogue of his treasure hunt during the Baekje period. |
| Lee-il gul | 이일구 | Baekje | | The assistant of the grave robber king who appeared. He is a timid person who divides his bangs 1:9He sneaks a look at Baekje's bracelet relic, but when Bongjaba chases him, he mistakes it for a ghost and sends an SOS to Tori, calling it a curse. Master of Artifact Replication |
| Sleuth | 형사 | Baekje | | He has a rough-looking personality that makes him look more like a criminal than a criminal, but he is a genuine guy. |
| Tanaka | 다나카 | Baekje | | Although she is a supporting character, She is also a villain.And she's Japanese |
| Choi Buja | 최부자 | Silla/Joseon | 26 September | Although she is the same age as Pangi, Tori, and Catherine, she is a confident girl with a Hwarang spirit. She is loved by Pangi and Junior She disguised herself as a man to become a Hwarang. |
| Leader Choi | 최 단장 | Silla | | He's Buja grandfather |
| Haecho | 해초 | Unified Silla/Goryeo | 11 January | He Dr. Donjuman's assistant His father is a captain, his mother is a diver, and he is an only son A sea man who is excellent at swimming and diving He is compassionate, kind-hearted and straightforward. |
| Donjuman | 돈주만 박사 | Unified Silla/Goryeo | | One of the three genius archaeologists along with Jigubon and Dotoran If Portus is the gubon and Athos is the dotoran, then Donjuman is Aramis He major is underwater archeology. Survives dramatically on the uninhabited islands of Wando with incredible swimming skills |
| David | 다비트 | Balhae | | Lee Eunju once liked him and is a Russian agent. |
| Captain Lee Chung-seong | 리충성 대장 | Goryeo | | North Korean representative of the North-South joint excavation team Tori and Haecho are shocked when they first see each other due to their strong and blunt appearance, as expected from North Koreans, but they are actually soft on the inside. |
| Junior M | 주니어 M | Joseon/Japanese occupation | 15 January | Sir M's son. Become friends with Pangi He likes Buja and Catherine. |
| Adolf (Sir A) | 아돌프(A경) | Joseon | | He is the second-in-command and senior chairman of the Treasure Master and a close friend of Sir M, and is called Sir A within the organization. Junior calls him Uncle Adolf and seems to follow him well. |
| Hong Duna | 홍두나 | Joseon | | A girl around Pangi Tori's age She is a model student, very smart and intelligent. |
| Go Mulwang | 고물왕 | Joseon | | An antique rich man who lives in a junk shop. The real name is Lee Ha-eung. He don't buy or sell junk, and the doorbell has an explosive device. |
| Secret Agent 700 | 비밀 요원 700 | Japanese occupation | | Advanced Special Agent sent to Independence Gate for investigation |
| Bori | 보리 | Northern and Southern States period | | He is a North Korean defector boy He is introverted but kind-hearted. |
| Bori grandfather | 보리의 할아버지 | Northern and Southern States period | | At the time of the story, he is already deceased. He was originally from Daeseong-dong in South Korea, but was taken as a student soldier during the Korean War and was left in North Korea due to the division of North and South Korea. He eventually attempts to escape North Korea with Bori, but is seriously injured during the escape and dies, leaving only Bori with a walkie-talkie. Still, the funeral is held with Bongpal-i help. |
| Bori little grandfather | 보리의 작은 할아버지 | Northern and Southern States period | | Bori's grandfather was separated from his older brother due to the Korean War. He hid the walkie-talkie he shared with his older brother in his hometown of Daeseong-dong when he was young, and was anxiously waiting for his older brother to return. In the end, he reunites with Bori who finds the radio, but since his older brother was no longer of this world, he weeps when he hears from Bori about his brother's death. He is quite fond of lemons, and even in his stamp album there is a doodle drawn with lemon juice depicting a meeting with his older brother. | |
| Title | Original title | Date of publication | ISBN |
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| 1 | Treasure Hunting in  Iraq | 이라크에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 2 | Treasure Hunting in  France | 프랑스에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 3 | Treasure Hunting in  China | 중국에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 4 | Treasure Hunting in  India | 인도에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 5 | Treasure Hunting in  Egypt | 이집트에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 6 | Treasure Hunting in | 미국에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 7 | Treasure Hunting in  Japan | 일본에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 8 | Treasure Hunting in  Greece | 그리스에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 9 | Treasure Hunting in | 러시아에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 10 | Treasure Hunting in  Germany | 독일에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 11 | Treasure Hunting in  Australia | 호주에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 12 | Treasure Hunting in  Brazil | 브라질에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 13 | Treasure Hunting in | 영국에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 14 | Treasure Hunting in  Turkey | 튀르키예에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 15 | Treasure Hunting in  Spain | 스페인에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 16 | Treasure Hunting in  Thailand | 태국에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 17 | Treasure Hunting in the  Netherlands | 네덜란드에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 18 | Treasure Hunting in  Mexico | 멕시코에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 19 | Treasure Hunting in  Canada | 캐나다에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 20 | Treasure Hunting in | 베트남에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 21 | Treasure Hunting in  Austria | 오스트리아에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 22 | Treasure Hunting in  Israel | 이스라엘에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 23 | Treasure Hunting in  Cuba | 쿠바에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 24 | Treasure Hunting in  South Africa | 남아공에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 25 | Treasure Hunting in  Switzerland | 스위스에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 26 | Treasure Hunting in  New Zealand | 뉴질랜드에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 27 | Treasure Hunting in  Italy part 1 | 이탈리아에서 보물찾기 1 | | |
| 28 | Treasure Hunting in Italy part 2 | 이탈리아에서 보물찾기 2 | | |
| 29 | Treasure hunting in the  Philippines | 필리핀에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 30 | Treasure Hunting in  Sweden | 스웨덴에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 31 | Treasure Hunting in  Finland | 핀란드에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 32 | Treasure Hunting in  Peru | 페루에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 33 | Treasure Hunting in  Poland | 폴란드에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 34 | Treasure Hunting in | 대만에서 보물찾기 | | |
| 35 | Treasure Hunting in the  Czech Republic | 체코에서 보물찾기 | | | |
| Title | Original title | Date of publication |
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| 1 | Treasure Hunting in Shanghai | 상하이에서 보물찾기 | |
| 2 | Treasure Hunting in Los Angeles | LA에서 보물찾기 | |
| 3 | Treasure Hunting in Osaka | 오사카에서 보물찾기 | |
| 4 | Treasure Hunting in Vancouver | 벤쿠버에서 보물찾기 | |
| 5 | Treasure Hunting in Sydney | 시드니에서 보물찾기 | |
| Treasure Hunting in Pyeongchang | 평창에서 보물찾기 | Published in conjunction with Pyeongchang Winter Olympics |
| 6 | Treasure Hunting in London | 런던에서 보물찾기 | |
| 7 | Treasure Hunting in Moscow | 모스크바에서 보물찾기 | |
| 8 | Treasure Hunting in Jakarta | 자카르타에서 보물찾기 | |
| 9 | Treasure Hunting in Seoul 1 | 서울에서 보물찾기 1 | |
| 10 | Treasure Hunting in Seoul 2 | 서울에서 보물찾기 2 | |
| 11 | Treasure Hunting in Jeju 1 | 제주에서 보물찾기 1 | |
| 12 | Treasure Hunting in Jeju 2 | 제주에서 보물찾기 2 | |
| 13 | Treasure Hunting in Busan 1 | 부산에서 보물찾기 1 | |
| 14 | Treasure Hunting in Busan 2 | 부산에서 보물찾기 2 | |
| 15 | Treasure Hunting in Rome | 로마에서 보물찾기 | |
| 16 | Treasure Hunting in Bangkok | 방콕에서 보물찾기 | |
| 17 | Treasure Hunting in Istanbul | 이스탄불에서 보물찾기 | |
| 18 | Treasure Hunting in Paris | 파리에서 보물찾기 | |
| 19 | Treasure Hunting in Singapore | 싱가포르에서 보물찾기 | |
| 20 | Treasure Hunting in New York | 뉴욕에서 보물찾기 | |
| 21 | Treasure Hunting in Lisbon | 리스본에서 보물찾기 | |
| 22 | Treasure Hunting in Hanoi | 하노이에서 보물찾기 | |
| 23 | Treasure Hunting in Berlin | 베를린에서 보물찾기 | |
| 24 | Treasure Hunting in Doha | 도하에서 보물찾기 | |
| 25 | Treasure Hunting in Budapest | 부다페스트에서 보물찾기 | |
| 26 | Treasure Hunting in Hawaii | 하와이에서 보물찾기 | 13 July 2023 |
| 27 | Treasure Hunting in Galapagos | 갈라파고스에서 보물찾기 | 12 March 2024 |
| 28 | Treasure Hunting in Santorini | 산토리니에서 보물찾기 | 30 July 2024 |
| 29 | Treasure Hunting in Quebec | 퀘벡에서 보물찾기 | | |
