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Through the Darkness

Through the Darkness

2022 · TV series · South Korea · Crime/Drama

Song Ha-young works as an early profiler on the Criminal Behavior Analysis Team, analyzing the psychology of serial offenders. In some cases, profiling begins, on-site verification takes place, and the investigation advances within a short dramatic timeframe. The work depicts the early stage in which a small number of personnel lay the foundations for criminal behavior analysis.

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OVERALL TRUTH BASIS · Fact-based dramatization

Dramatizes Kwon Il-yong and Go Na-mu's nonfiction and early Korean profiling experiences

FACT / FICTION

Verification 7

Fact / Fiction verification

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FactConfidence High

Through the Darkness is a South Korean drama/series released in 2022.

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The work can be identified on official broadcaster and platform pages.
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  • 악의 마음을 읽는 자들 공식 프로그램SBS · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
FactConfidence High

The core factual basis of Through the Darkness is 'a dramatization of Kwon Il-yong and Go Na-mu's nonfiction and early Korean profiling experiences.'

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Dramatizes Kwon Il-yong and Go Na-mu's nonfiction and early Korean profiling experiences
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  • 권일용·고나무 원작과 드라마의 실제 프로파일링 배경한겨레 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
  • 한국 1세대 프로파일러 경험을 바탕으로 한 드라마 분석경향신문 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
FactConfidence High

Kwon Il-yong is a real person connected to the work's factual basis.

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Kwon Il-yong's existence and historical role as a profiler were confirmed through direct sources.
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  • 권일용·고나무 원작과 드라마의 실제 프로파일링 배경한겨레 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
DramatizedConfidence High

The work is classified as centered on real people and events, while adapting character relationships, scenes, and chronology for a feature-length drama narrative.

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reelVerity records directly verifiable historical facts separately from dramatic reconstruction.
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  • 악의 마음을 읽는 자들 공식 프로그램SBS · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
  • 권일용·고나무 원작과 드라마의 실제 프로파일링 배경한겨레 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
  • 한국 1세대 프로파일러 경험을 바탕으로 한 드라마 분석경향신문 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
CompositeConfidence High

The protagonist Song Ha-young is a character modeled on Kwon Il-yong, who was called Korea's first profiler.

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Song Ha-young works as an early profiler on the Criminal Behavior Analysis Team, analyzing the psychology of serial offenders.
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An interview in the Kyunghyang Shinmun explains that Song Ha-young is a character modeled on Kwon Il-yong, who was called the country's first profiler in 2000.
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  • 한국 1세대 프로파일러 경험을 바탕으로 한 드라마 분석경향신문 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
FactConfidence High

In 2005, the Korean police first specially recruited 16 profilers.

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The work depicts the early stages in which a small number of personnel laid the foundations for criminal behavior analysis.
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The Kyunghyang Shinmun reported that Kwon Il-yong began working as a profiler in 2000 and that the police first specially recruited 16 people in 2005.
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  • 한국 1세대 프로파일러 경험을 바탕으로 한 드라마 분석경향신문 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
DramatizedConfidence High

The pace at which cases are solved in the work is compressed compared with actual profiling work.

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In some cases, the start of profiling, on-site verification, and investigative progress follow one another within a short dramatic timeframe.
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Actual profilers explained to the Kyunghyang Shinmun that cases are rarely solved in a day in reality and that they visit crime scenes multiple times to conduct analysis.
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  • 한국 1세대 프로파일러 경험을 바탕으로 한 드라마 분석경향신문 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →

CHARACTER ↔ PERSON

Characters and real people

2 characters

Sources used

  1. 악의 마음을 읽는 자들 공식 프로그램SBS · Production material · Grade AOpen source →
  2. 권일용·고나무 원작과 드라마의 실제 프로파일링 배경한겨레 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →
  3. 한국 1세대 프로파일러 경험을 바탕으로 한 드라마 분석경향신문 · Creator interview · Grade BOpen source →