Deep Rooted Tree
Deep Rooted Tree
The drama builds the process leading to the completion and promulgation of Hunminjeongeum into a dramatic conflict. It takes King Sejong’s creation of a new script as its central historical backdrop. Sejong’s choices and conflicts intersect with the era’s circumstances, in which a fictional mystery is combined with the real history of Hunminjeongeum’s creation.
OVERALL TRUTH BASIS · Inspired reconstruction
Combines a fictional mystery with the real history of the creation of Hunminjeongeum
FACT / FICTION
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Fact / Fiction verification
6 records<Deep Rooted Tree> is a South Korean drama/series released in 2011.
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- 뿌리깊은 나무 공식 프로그램SBS · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
The core factual basis of <Deep Rooted Tree> is 'combining a fictional mystery with the real history of the creation of Hunminjeongeum.'
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- Combines a fictional mystery with the real history of the creation of Hunminjeongeum
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- 한글한국민족문화대백과사전 · Encyclopedia · Grade AOpen source →
- 훈민정음한국민족문화대백과사전 · Encyclopedia · Grade AOpen source →
Sejong is a real person connected to the work's factual basis.
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- Sejong's existence and historical role (king of Joseon and the leader of the creation of Hunminjeongeum) were confirmed in direct sources.
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- 훈민정음한국민족문화대백과사전 · Encyclopedia · Grade AOpen source →
Although the actual history and period setting can be confirmed, a substantial part of the central narrative or major characters should be treated as fictional or reconstructed.
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- reelVerity records directly verifiable historical facts separately from dramatic reconstruction.
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- 뿌리깊은 나무 공식 프로그램SBS · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
- 한글한국민족문화대백과사전 · Encyclopedia · Grade AOpen source →
- 훈민정음한국민족문화대백과사전 · Encyclopedia · Grade AOpen source →
The creation of 28 new letters by Sejong is recorded as having taken place in 1443.
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- The drama takes Sejong's creation of a new script as a central historical backdrop.
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- A December 1443 entry in the Annals of Sejong records that the king created 28 letters of Eonmun.
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- 알고 싶은 한글국립국어원 · Government source · Grade AOpen source →
- 훈민정음국사편찬위원회 우리역사넷 · Official record · Grade AOpen source →
The 1446 record is related to the completion of the Hunminjeongeum Haerye, but caution is needed before interpreting it as the exact date the script was promulgated.
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- The drama shapes the process leading to the completion and promulgation of Hunminjeongeum as a dramatic conflict.
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- The National Institute of Korean Language explains that the September 1446 entry in the Annals concerns the completion of the manuscript of the Haerye edition, and notes that there is no direct evidence supporting an exact date of promulgation.
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- 알고 싶은 한글국립국어원 · Government source · Grade AOpen source →
- 훈민정음국사편찬위원회 우리역사넷 · Official record · Grade AOpen source →
CHARACTER ↔ PERSON
Characters and real people
강채윤
Fictional character무휼
Fictional character세종
Historical personBased on a real personSejong →
소이
Fictional characterSources used
- 뿌리깊은 나무 공식 프로그램SBS · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
- 한글한국민족문화대백과사전 · Encyclopedia · Grade AOpen source →
- 훈민정음한국민족문화대백과사전 · Encyclopedia · Grade AOpen source →
- 알고 싶은 한글국립국어원 · Government source · Grade AOpen source →
- 훈민정음국사편찬위원회 우리역사넷 · Official record · Grade AOpen source →