Gukjungbak QR Stamp Tour Guide: How the Kakao Friends Treasure Hunt Works at the National Museum of Korea

The Gukjungbak QR stamp tour is the central indoor activity in “Kakao Friends and Gukjungbak Treasure Hunt,” a May 2026 family-month program run by the National Museum of Korea with Kakao. The event runs from May 2 to May 31, 2026, at the National Museum of Korea, with operating hours listed as 9:30 to 17:30 and free admission on the museum event page. ¹

For visitors, the main idea is simple: walk through the permanent exhibition building, find five treasure-shaped QR panels featuring Chun-sik dressed as artifacts, scan the QR codes, and collect five digital treasure cards. When all five cards have been collected, a master card is issued automatically. ²

How the Gukjungbak QR Stamp Tour Works

The QR stamp tour takes place inside the permanent exhibition hall. The event guide describes five treasure-shaped QR code panels placed from the first floor through the third floor, so visitors should plan to move across multiple levels rather than looking in only one gallery area. ¹

Each panel is tied to a digital card. The task is to scan all five QR codes and collect the full set of five treasure digital cards. Kakao’s event announcement describes the same core mechanic: visitors scan five QR codes inside the museum, collect the treasure digital cards, and receive a master card automatically after completing the set. ³

The master card is not only a completion badge. The National Museum of Korea event page states that the master card includes a Friends Shop discount benefit after all five cards are collected. ¹ The source material does not provide the discount rate, detailed terms, or whether the benefit is limited by inventory or date, so visitors should check the on-site notice before using it.

Because this is a self-guided stamp-style activity, the most practical approach is to begin with enough time to move between floors. The listed operating window is 9:30 to 17:30, and the event runs through May 31, 2026. ¹ Since May 15, 2026 falls within the event period, the program is ongoing on this date, based on the published schedule.

Planning Your Route with Kakao Map and On-Site Features

Kakao Map is part of the broader event experience. The National Museum of Korea announced that indoor and outdoor map services in Kakao Map began on April 30, 2026, in cooperation with Kakao. ⁴ For this event, that matters because the museum says visitors can check the outdoor locations of large balloons such as “Bangarachunsang” and “White Porcelain Chun Jar” during the May 2 to May 31 program period. ⁴

The same museum announcement also says Kakao Map information has been strengthened for movement-related convenience facilities, including accessible toilets, nursing rooms, elevators, and ramps. ⁴ For families, visitors moving between floors, or anyone planning an accessible route, this is one of the most useful practical details in the available source material.

Kakao also linked the event experience with Kakao Map indoor maps and a ChatGPT for Kakao artifact recommendation function. ³ The available source text does not specify exactly how the recommendation function should be accessed during the tour, so the safest reading is that it is part of the event-linked digital experience rather than a separate required step for completing the QR card collection.

Outside the QR tour, the event includes large installations. The National Museum of Korea says “Bangarachunsang” and “White Porcelain Chun Jar” sculptures are installed in the Open Plaza and by the Mirror Pond. ² Dailian also reported that “Bangarachunsang” is in the Open Plaza and the “White Porcelain Chun Jar” balloon is at the Mirror Pond. ⁵ These are useful stops before or after the indoor stamp tour, especially if visitors want to connect the indoor Kakao Friends Treasure Hunt with the outdoor displays.

What Else Is Connected to the Kakao Friends Treasure Hunt

The program is not limited to QR scanning. Kakao described the project as a May family-month online and offline event with the National Museum of Korea, beginning with an April pre-event emoticon promotion and continuing through the main May program. ³ A Kakao representative said they hoped visitors would experience “a special exhibition where tradition and modernity come together.” ³

There is also a related merchandise angle. News1/Financial News reported that the National Museum Cultural Foundation introduced 17 “MU:DS x Kakao Friends” products connected with the May “Kakao Friends and Gukjungbak Treasure Hunt” event at the National Museum of Korea. ⁶ The products use museum collection motifs including the Pensive Bodhisattva, Tiger and Magpie painting, Sun, Moon and Five Peaks screen, and celadon, and include items such as doll keyrings, badges, notebooks, and fans. ⁶

For the QR stamp tour itself, however, the essential visitor checklist remains narrow: go to the National Museum of Korea during the May 2-31 event period, use the 9:30-17:30 operating hours as the published guide, find the five QR panels across floors one through three, scan each code, collect five digital cards, and confirm the automatically issued master card. ¹

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Patrick Choi

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