Treasure Hunting


Treasure Hunting is a Manhwa series by Kang Gyung-Hyo. The series has sold more than 13 million copies worldwide.
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 also mentions any historical ties between South Korea and the country being visited. In translations for different countries, this introduction is changed accordingly for the target readers.

Background

The primary character of the series is the young but precocious Pang-Yi who accompanied his uncle, the Professor Gu-Bon, on various foreign trips for archaeology or historical studies. They encounter a clue to some legendary lost, and the hunt would take them across the country, bringing them to sights and experiences significant to the country.
Pang-Yi's rival is Do To-ri, a child prodigy, though they are willing to work together occasionally.

Characters

Main characters

• Ko & Kai : They are Dr. Bong Pal-Yi's henchmen. Ko is fat but Kai is thin. They met Dr. Pal-Yi since they were kids.
• Katherine/Sophie : First appears in France. She is a rich girl who acts like a spoiled brat and she likes Pangyi and Dotori. Her name is as same as Katherine of Medici.
• Nuree : First appears in Turkey. He likes Dotori, But later like Reyna, the girl in Israel. He is Muslim.
• Reyna : First appears in Israel. She wants to choose her own religion, but later she wants to be Jewish proudly just like her parents.
• Nguen Bun Hong : First appears in Vietnam. He loves to cook Pho. He is the third generation of chef after his dad and grandpa.
• Windy : First appears in Iraq. She is Pangyi's friend. She is a member of UNESCO.
• Shun Li : First appears in China. She is a Chinese fighter. Her hair looks like a Chinese snack.
• Maria : First appears in Brazil. She is a Brazilian natural explorer. She is Professor Ji Gubon's friend and he likes her too.
• Mr. Hudson : First appears in Egypt. He is 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.
• Raffi : First appears in New Zealand. He is a Maori warrior whose grandpa is a tribal chief. He likes to play Rugby. His favourite Rugby team is All black team.
• Kena : First appears in New Zealand. He is Maori tribal chief. He used to be a Maori warrior. He wants his grandson Raffi to be a Maori warrior just like him.
• Mrs. Misra : First appears in India. She is a beautiful Indian woman. She is Tandoori's mom. Professor Ji Gubon has a crush on her.
• Tandoori : First appears in India. He is a boy that looks like a girl because he never cut his hair. His religion is Sikh.
• Professor Will : He is an old English man. He is Professor Ji Gubon and Professor Do Toran's teacher.
• Vice Professor Albert : First appears in UK. He is 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.
• Jose : First appears in Cuba. He is a Cuban baseball player.
• Amelia : First appears in Cuba. She is Jose's aunt. She is a Cuban doctor. Professor Ji Gubon has a crush on her.
• Anna : First appears in Cuba. She is a pirate. She wants to steal all the treasure in the ocean. She is a relative of Davy Jones.
• Pepper : First appears in Mozambique. He is a Mozambican soldier. He can fight very good. He wants to own AK-47 gun of Mozambique.
• Tom : First appears in UK. Student Council President receive message from 008. His parents were dead and later adopted by Dr. Bong Palyi.
• Vivika : First appears in Austria. She is an adopted child of President Rudolf. She is a musician who can play violin really good. She is Katherine's cousin.
• President Rudolf : First appears in Austria. He is a rich Austrian man who adopted Vivika as his daughter. He is secretly a Treasure master.
• Rud Fanbasten : First appears in Netherlands. He is an Art teacher of a university in Netherlands. He is secretly a Treasure Master.
• Mr. Fanbasten : First appears in Netherlands. He is a fat man who likes cheese. He looks like Santa Clause. He is Rud's father.
• Emily : First appears in Netherlands. She is a Dutch florist. Her picture was founded in one of Rud's paintings.
• Alex/Alexia : A Romanian guy who breaks up with his girlfriend and becomes a girl because of his ex-girlfriend's magic potion.
• Choyeiji/Takuya/James : First appears in Japan. He is a Japanese-Korean boy who does not like his own name. He has 3 names. English name = James, Japanese name = Takuya, Korean name = Choyeiji. Pangyi likes to call him Broken eyebrow. He has crush on Doremi as seen on Korea.
• Elóise : A Québécois girl whom secretly a witch. She is Alex's ex-girlfriend. First appears in Québec.
• Mobile : First appears in Myanmar. She is a Thai girl who lives in Myanmar and the main character in Lithuania. Pangyi likes to call her brat but she is sometimes smart and sometimes arrogant.
• Anne : First appears in Germany. She is an innocent sweet girl. She likes German history and playing piano. She likes Nazi.
• Emir : First appears in Germany. He is Anne's twin brother. He likes to play football. He is a lady boy.
• Jens : First appears in Germany. He runs away from his father because his father is a Nazi. He has his own house. He is Anne and Emir's father.
• Carl : He is Jens's father, Anne and Emir's grandpa. He used to be Nazi, SS officer. Right now he is an old man that lives in a hospital in Munich. He is the only Nazi left that know about the gold treasures.
• Hera : First appears in Greece. Her name is as same as Greek goddess name. She lives in Crete island. She likes Greek mythology. Both Pangyi and Dotori like her.
• Nicos : First appears in Greece. He is Hera's father. He makes a fake treasure for Dr. Bong Palyi and regretted it.
• Indy : First appears in America. He is American but he asked appears in Germany and Italy. He is also a treasure hunter. He likes adventure and hunting treasures from all around the world. He always has equipments with him all the time but he doesn't like to take a bathe.
• Two Tailed Skank : First appears in America. No one know what his actual name is but peoples call him Two Tailed Skank because his fart can separate into two lanes.
• Dapper : First appears in Singapore. He is a Catholic Thai-Vietnamese.He is also a fascist
• Nanda Bayin : First appears in Myanmar. He is the fourth king of Tongoo Dynasty. He wants to be a student council president. He is Mobile's best friend. Joined Treasure Master to replace Book in Burgundy.
• Vinh : First appears in Vietnam. He is a professional Vietnamese chef. He wins the best chef of the year prize.
• Joseph : First appears in Philippines. He is an orphan boy that was raised by father Martin at the church since he was a kid.
• Father Martin : First appears in Philippines. He is a Filipino priest who raised a lots of orphan kids at his church.
• Jay : First appears in Philippines. She is 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.
• Thani S. Silachai : First appears in Thailand. He is a boxer. He has an ability to do Muay Thai fight.
• Kaew : First appears in Thailand. She is a flower seller in the street. She is Thani's younger sister.
• Professor Mahmoud : First appears in Turkey. He is an architect. He is Nuree's father. He lies that he was Senan's relative. He is a Treasure Master.
• President Cecil White : First appears in South Africa. He is a British man who lives in South Africa during racism ages. He does not like racism because he loves a black woman. He owns a rainbow diamond in his mansion.
• Tandy : First appears in South Africa. She is a kid who likes football. She has a lots of part-time job.
• Rosa : First appears in South Africa. She is Tandy's aunt. She helps President White to find a rainbow diamond. She is also President White's crush. She is dead.
• Lion King : First appears in South Africa. He is an antagonist. He is Tandy's boss and president White's nephew. She likes to support football.
• Professor Scot : First appears in Scotland. A friend of Professor Do Toran. Help Dotori and Pangyi find the treasure.
• Book : One of the Treasure Master later eliminate in Ukraine.

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1Treasure Hunting in 이라크에서 보물찾기2003
2Treasure Hunting in May 2011프랑스에서 보물찾기2004
3Treasure Hunting in May 2011중국에서 보물찾기2004
4Treasure Hunting in Jun 2011인도에서 보물찾기2004
5Treasure Hunting in Jul 2011이집트에서 보물찾기2005
6Treasure Hunting in Jul 2011미국에서 보물찾기2005
7Treasure Hunting in Aug 2011일본에서 보물찾기2005
8Treasure Hunting in 그리스에서 보물찾기2005
9Treasure Hunting in 러시아에서 보물찾기2006
10Treasure Hunting in Aug 2012독일에서 보물찾기2006
11Treasure Hunting in 호주에서 보물찾기2006
12Treasure Hunting in May 2012브라질에서 보물찾기2006
13Treasure Hunting in 영국에서 보물찾기2007
14Treasure Hunting in Jun 2015터키에서 보물찾기2007
15Treasure Hunting in Jul 2012스페인에서 보물찾기2007
16Treasure Hunting in 태국에서 보물찾기2008
17Treasure Hunting in the May 2013네덜란드에서 보물찾기2008
18Treasure Hunting in Jun 2012멕시코에서 보물찾기2008
19Treasure Hunting in Apr 2013캐나다에서 보물찾기2008
20Treasure Hunting in May 2013베트남에서 보물찾기2009
21Treasure Hunting in Jun 2013오스트리아에서 보물찾기2009
22Treasure Hunting in 이스라엘에서 보물찾기2009
23Treasure Hunting in Sep 2013쿠바에서 보물찾기2010
24Treasure Hunting in Apr 2012남아공에서 보물찾기2010
25Treasure Hunting in May 2012스위스에서 보물찾기2010
26Treasure Hunting in Oct 2013뉴질랜드에서 보물찾기2011
27Treasure Hunting in part 1이탈리아에서 보물찾기 12011
28Treasure Hunting in part 2이탈리아에서 보물찾기 22012
29Treasure hunting in the Apr 2015필리핀에서 보물찾기2012
30Treasure Hunting in Aug 2015스웨덴에서 보물찾기2012
31Treasure Hunting in Apr 2016핀란드에서 보물찾기2013
32Treasure Hunting in Feb 2016페루에서 보물찾기2013
33Treasure Hunting in Aug 2016폴란드에서 보물찾기2013
34Treasure Hunting in Sep 2016대만에서 보물찾기2013
35Treasure Hunting in the Jun 2016체코에서 보물찾기2014
36Treasure Hunting in Jun 2019스코틀랜드에서 보물 찾기2019
37Treasure Hunting in Nov 2019미얀마의 보물 찾기2019
38Treasure Hunting in Jan 2020모잠비크의 보물 찾기2020
39Treasure Hunting in Feb 2020싱가포르의 보물 찾기2020
40Treasure Hunting in Feb 2020태국 만의 보물 찾기2020
41Treasure Hunting in Feb 2020라오스의 보물 찾기2020
42Treasure Hunting in Mar 2020퀘벡의 보물 찾기2020
43Treasure Hunting in Mar 2020루마니아의 보물 찾기2020
44Treasure Hunting in Mar 2020리투아니아의 보물 찾기2020
45Treasure Hunting in Mar 2020우크라이나의 보물 사냥2020
46Treasure Hunting in Mar 2020부르고뉴의 보물 사냥2020

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