Park Seo-yeon

Season 1 · October 2026

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   E1 · 2 Oct 2026

   The Ledger Shocked Me

   A treasure hunter recovers a ledger from a condemned hanok and must decide whether to follow a private collector's coercive offer.

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   I am a treasure hunter. Restaurateur Min Seora hired me to open this condemned hanok wall in Gyeongju before the floor is torn out.

   I found the ledger under the study wall. One hooked numeral stopped me cold because my grandfather corrected every survey the same way.

   I thought it led to treasure. My hands started shaking before I even read the next page.

   The entries were gambling debts. The dead owner had hidden cash beside them, but he was not hiding wealth.

   I gave Min Seora the ledger before anyone could take the cash. The proof was back in the hands of the person who hired me.

   That night, Baek Dohyun, a private collector, messaged me. He offered to keep rival hunter Han Jisu out of a report if I gave him private access.

   I sent Baek Dohyun the boundary mark instead. He sent a Mapo auction-house address, so I had found his next trail.

2. 

   E2 · 5 Oct 2026

   The Bell Exposed Baek

   A marine broker publicly accuses a treasure hunter of fixing illegal locations, but she must prove the ship bell was stolen before a crowd can destroy her credibility.

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   I entered this Busan salvage auction because collector Baek Dohyun used public buyers as bait. Marine broker Cho Yeongho was checking a stolen ship bell.

   Cho Yeongho called me Baek Dohyun's illegal-location fixer before I answered. Every bidder turned its phone on me.

   The bell had a thin replacement seam around its crown. I matched its serial number to Cho Yeongho's manifest while everyone watched.

   The rightful owner withdrew the bell before paying. That proof cleared me from the room, and Cho Yeongho had to admit his accusation was wrong.

   I found Baek Dohyun's wax around a buckle under the cradle. The lot record names his network, and the next marked object is waiting in Incheon.

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   E3 · 7 Oct 2026

   Baek Branded Me His Partner

   A private collector publicly brands a treasure hunter as his partner and uses unwanted closeness to force cooperation during a buyer preview.

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   Collector Baek Dohyun invited me to a private preview. He stood before three private buyers and called me his contracted salvage partner.

   Baek Dohyun put a hand at my lower back and steered me toward his chair. I stepped away before the buyers saw me accept it.

   Harbor mist marked my jacket, and Baek Dohyun offered his coat. He kept leaning closer, so I thanked him without taking it.

   The copied route depends on sea level and magnetic north. I noticed Baek Dohyun's copy left out those original survey notes.

   Baek Dohyun granted me supervised daylight access to the Maru for one plausible correction. I kept my real calculation hidden.

   I left with access to the vessel and my grandfather's notebook safe inside my sattache. Baek Dohyun's buyer stamp was my next trail.

4. 

   E4 · 9 Oct 2026

   The Courier Left Empty-Handed

   A treasure hunter recovers a sealed cinema trunk and defeats a collector's courier by forcing its owner to record who truly found it.

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   Cinema owner Chun Miae hired me to open this sealed stagehand's trunk at the closed Harbor Picture House before Incheon demolition workers removed it.

   I lifted the false bottom and found an undeveloped film reel beneath the lining. The trunk had not belonged to Baek Dohyun's auction crew.

   Baek Dohyun, the private collector, sent a courier with priority-custody papers before we had finished.

   Chun Miae crossed his name off the collection sheet and wrote me down as finder and witness. The courier left with an empty clipboard.

   The trunk's customs tag named the Maru as its departing vessel. Its buyer stamp matches Baek Dohyun's buckle, so I kept the reel for development.

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   E5 · 12 Oct 2026

   Baek Blamed the Wet Deck

   During Baek's supervised inspection of the Maru, Park Seo-yeon must prove who made the gangway dangerous before rival Han Jisu blames her.

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   I went aboard the Maru as collector Baek Dohyun's invited salvage expert. The collector was watching me test the controls beside the wheelhouse.

   Rival hunter Han Jisu reached the emergency cable first. The wet gangway dropped, and I nearly went over the side.

   Baek said I sabotaged it. Jisu and I found his thumbprint beside the bypass switch, so I made him open the cabinet on my camera.

   The cabinet proved Baek controlled the cable, and Jisu agreed to trade findings with me. Next, I want to know why his display compass is missing part of its sighting ring.

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   E6 · 14 Oct 2026

   The Missing Compass Ring

   Park Seo-yeon must find who removed a valuable ring from a brass compass gimbal before a charity auction sells the incomplete tool.

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   Prop buyer Lee Mina hired me in the closed Daegu planetarium to recover a brass compass gimbal before charity bidders took the room. One important ring was missing.

   The empty socket was not old damage. Its fresh edge matched a broken ring I could see on another buyer's display sample.

   Lee Mina recognized the sample. The bidder tried to call it a fair copy, but the same flaw had been filed away from his gimbal.

   He surrendered the ring after Lee Mina made him compare both edges before witnesses. The gimbal returned intact, and I kept its clamp for a closer look.

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   E7 · 16 Oct 2026

   The Ally List Vanished

   After proving Baek Dohyun's blackmail network to rival crews, Park Seo-yeon must keep the evidence alive when a forged ledger turns both new allies against her.

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   I developed the stagehand's film above a Mapo print shop. Han Jisu, a rival hunter, showed Moon Haneul, a salvage crew leader, what Baek Dohyun's catalogue did to his crews.

   The film placed Baek beside the Maru's wheelhouse and red cable lever. Jisu's evidence connected his crew symbols to threats, passwords, and private-access sales.

   Haneul recognized the lever and gave me the Maru's verified location. For 10 seconds, I thought I had gained 2 allies against Baek's blackmail network.

   Then Baek sent a stolen ledger naming me as the organizer of 3 illegal digs. Jisu threw down the film contacts, and Haneul cut away from me.

   I could not prove my innocence in time. I sealed authenticated copies and planned to give each one to a separate witness before Baek could silence them.

   Moon Haneul and Han Jisu trusted Baek's fake ledger more than my evidence. I kept the copies moving, but my reputation had already become another weapon.

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   E8 · 19 Oct 2026

   The Token Fell From His Pocket

   After a bidder attacks Park Seo-yeon during a Daegu recovery, she must escape with the ledger and discover why he carried access to Baek Dohyun's Maru.

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   Dye-house manager Gu Nari hired me to recover her founder's color ledger from a sealed Daegu mixing room before Baek Dohyun's licensed crew claimed it.

   A bidding intermediary followed me inside. He shoved me against it when he realized I had found the ledger.

   I forced him off the door bolt and called Gu Nari. Workshop witnesses came, so he could not take either the ledger or the room's evidence with him.

   A round bridge-access token fell from him. Its broken grip matched the cabinet I photographed inside the Maru.

   Gu Nari got her ledger back, and I kept the token. Baek could not call this stranger an ordinary bidder, because he carried access to the auction vessel.

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   E9 · 21 Oct 2026

   Baek Forged My Name

   After Baek Dohyun publicly accuses Park Seo-yeon of organizing illegal extractions, she must preserve the forged projection before the salvage industry believes the lie.

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   Collector Baek Dohyun took a Busan salvage exchange screen. He named me as the organizer of forbidden digs and mocked my old luxury-hotel work.

   The exchange manager revoked my access, and clients turned their phones toward me. I asked him to preserve the projector cache before Baek's accusation disappeared.

   Baek's copied payments used the same timestamp as the crew catalogue from his earlier private sale. The match proved the records had been prepared together.

   I still could not clear my name. The room knew me as an illegal organizer, but Baek's forged ledger remained preserved with its projector inventory number.

   Rival hunter Han Jisu came after the meeting. He said Baek controls the Maru's gangway, and the public inspection must decide who owns that vessel.