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* IronLady: The Queen Dowager is {{stoic}} pretty much 24/7, though she is (theoretically) powerless under the king's rule.
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* TheWisePrince: Crown Prince Yi Jin is much more reasonable and merciful than his father, and a competent ruler. In the penultimate episode, the king even admits this. [[spoiler:At the end, he becomes TheGoodKing.]]
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: The Queen Dowager is {{stoic}} pretty much 24/7, though she is (theoretically) powerless under the king's rule.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: The Queen Dowager is {{stoic}} pretty much 24/7, though she is (theoretically) powerless under the king's rule.
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* TheWisePrince: Crown Prince Yi Jin is much more reasonable and merciful than his father, and a competent ruler. In the penultimate episode, the king even admits this. [[spoiler:At the end, he becomes TheGoodKing.]]
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: The Queen Dowager is {{stoic}} pretty much 24/7, though she is (theoretically) powerless under the king's rule.]]
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: The Queen Dowager is {{stoic}} pretty much 24/7, though she is (theoretically) powerless under the king's rule.
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* LeftHanging: At the epilogue at the end of the last episode, no mention is made of what happened to [[spoiler:the king]].
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the epilogue at the end of the last episode, no mention is made of what happened to [[spoiler:the king]].
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* TheArtifact: After the first few episodes, Dowon's PenName and romance novel-writing career is all but forgotten. At the end [[spoiler:he starts writing again, this time as a travel writer]].
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* TheWomanWearingtheQueenlyMask: The Queen Dowager is {{stoic}} pretty much 24/7, though she is (theoretically) powerless under the king's rule.
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* TheWomanWearingtheQueenlyMask: TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: The Queen Dowager is {{stoic}} pretty much 24/7, though she is (theoretically) powerless under the king's rule.
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* ObliviouslyAdopted:
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* ObliviouslyAdopted:ObliviousAdoption:
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* TheWisePrince: Crown Prince Yi Jin is much more reasonable and merciful than his father, and a competent ruler. In the penultimate episode, the king even admits this.
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* TheWisePrince: Crown Prince Yi Jin is much more reasonable and merciful than his father, and a competent ruler. In the penultimate episode, the king even admits this. [[spoiler:At the end, he becomes TheGoodKing.]]
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** There was no Korean king in the 19th century who [[spoiler:tried to introduce Western science and philosophy, and was deposed for it]].
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* BrutalHonesty: When the king asks the assembled counselors, as well as Dowon and Jin, if he has committed any of the sins that no king should commit, only Dowon has the balls (or is inexperienced enough) to answer yes, and proceeds to explain exactly which ones and how.
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* BrutalHonesty: When the king asks the assembled counselors, councillors, as well as Dowon and Jin, if he has committed any of the sins that no king should commit, only Dowon has the balls (or is inexperienced enough) to answer yes, and proceeds to explain exactly which ones and how.
* EvilChancellor: Second State Councillor Min Ik-pyeong is the most villainous character, [[spoiler:even having personally killed the previous king]], but the king is no good guy either.
* EvilReactionary: The king and Councillor Min Ik-pyeong, and their faction, are vehemently opposed to anything Western or modern [[spoiler:and led TheCoup against the previous king to stamp out any modern influences]].
* EvilReactionary: The king and Councillor Min Ik-pyeong, and their faction, are vehemently opposed to anything Western or modern [[spoiler:and led TheCoup against the previous king to stamp out any modern influences]].
* ObliviouslyAdopted:
** [[spoiler:Prince Dowon is actually the son of the deposed king, raised as the son of the current king.]]
** [[spoiler:Hae-ryung and Jae-gyeong are not actually siblings, she was the daughter of his teacher at Seoraewon who was murdered.]]
** [[spoiler:Prince Dowon is actually the son of the deposed king, raised as the son of the current king.]]
** [[spoiler:Hae-ryung and Jae-gyeong are not actually siblings, she was the daughter of his teacher at Seoraewon who was murdered.]]
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* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Both Jean-Baptiste and his brother Dominique are played by the same actor.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the epilogue at the end of the last episode, no mention is made of what happened to [[spoiler:the king]].
* TheWisePrince: Crown Prince Yi Jin is much more reasonable and merciful than his father, and a competent ruler. In the penultimate episode, the king even admits this.
* TheWomanWearingtheQueenlyMask: The Queen Dowager is {{stoic}} pretty much 24/7, though she is (theoretically) powerless under the king's rule.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the epilogue at the end of the last episode, no mention is made of what happened to [[spoiler:the king]].
* TheWisePrince: Crown Prince Yi Jin is much more reasonable and merciful than his father, and a competent ruler. In the penultimate episode, the king even admits this.
* TheWomanWearingtheQueenlyMask: The Queen Dowager is {{stoic}} pretty much 24/7, though she is (theoretically) powerless under the king's rule.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** There were never female court historians in Joseon.
** The first Korean book on vaccination wasn't published until 1885.
** There were never female court historians in Joseon.
** The first Korean book on vaccination wasn't published until 1885.
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* BookBurning: In the first couple episodes, the government suddenly bans many books, including Maehwa's, and burns them.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's revealed that Min U-won [[spoiler:had a wife who [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] after her father was executed for corruption.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's revealed that Min U-won [[spoiler:had a wife who [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] after her father was executed for corruption.corruption]].
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* LargeHam: First Historian Yang Si-haeng is very loud and expressive, but a good boss deep down.
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* LargeHam: LargeHam:
** First Historian Yang Si-haeng is very loud and expressive, but a good boss deepdown.down.
** The bookstore owner is also very hammy, to [[spoiler:Officer Min]]'s annoyance when he's trying to buy banned books.
** First Historian Yang Si-haeng is very loud and expressive, but a good boss deep
** The bookstore owner is also very hammy, to [[spoiler:Officer Min]]'s annoyance when he's trying to buy banned books.
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* ShelteredAristocrat: Prince Dowon has barely left the inner palace section of Nokseodang his entire life, and it seems the only people he has any regular contact with are his eunuch attendant Heo Sam-bo, his two maids, and sometimes his older brother Yi Jin.
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* ShelteredAristocrat: At the start of the series, Prince Dowon has barely left the inner palace section of Nokseodang his entire life, and it seems the only people he has any regular contact with are his eunuch attendant Heo Sam-bo, his two maids, and sometimes his older brother Yi Jin.
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* ThoseTwoGirls: Dowon's two maidservants don't really do or say much and are mainly there to help Sam-bo.
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* ThoseTwoGirls: ThoseTwoGirls:
** Dowon's two maidservants don't really do or say much and are mainly there to helpSam-bo.Sam-bo.
** Apprentices Oh Eun-im and Heo Ah-ran get slightly more characterization, but they're still mostly comic relief compared to Goo Hae-ryung and Song Sa-hui.
* TheWisePrince: Crown Prince Yi Jin is much more reasonable and merciful than his father, and a competent ruler.
** Dowon's two maidservants don't really do or say much and are mainly there to help
** Apprentices Oh Eun-im and Heo Ah-ran get slightly more characterization, but they're still mostly comic relief compared to Goo Hae-ryung and Song Sa-hui.
* TheWisePrince: Crown Prince Yi Jin is much more reasonable and merciful than his father, and a competent ruler.
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* BrutalHonesty: When the king asks the assembled counselors, as well as Dowon and Jin, if he has committed any of the sins that no king should commit, only Dowon has the balls (or is inexperienced enough) to answer yes, and proceeds to explain exactly which ones and how.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The showdown between the historians and the Royal Secretariat looks exactly like a fight between rival {{delinquent}} gangs, but with grown men in elaborate period dress.
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* NeverGetsDrunk: Goo Hae-ryung demonstrates her unusually high alcohol tolerance in a drinking contest with First Historian Yang, to get him to respect her and the other female historians. She does get drunk, but it takes a lot to get there, as she mentions to the king later when he attempts to [[InVinoVeritas get her drunk and question her about what she wrote about him]].
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* SlaveToPR: The king is forced to moderate his behavior to ensure that he is looked upon favorably in the historical record.
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* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:At the end of Episode 12, after Hae-ryung finds Dowon's love note he wrote for her.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: It's revealed that Min U-won [[spoiler:had a wife who [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] after her father was executed for corruption.
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* KingIncognito: Prince Dowon, bored with staying in the inner palace, disguises himself as "Assistant Clerk Yi" and helps out the Office of Royal Decrees during the clerks' strike.
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* KingIncognito: KingIncognito:
** Prince Dowon, bored with staying in the inner palace, disguises himself as "Assistant Clerk Yi" and helps out the Office of Royal Decrees during the clerks'strike.strike.
** Later on his brother, Crown Prince Yi Jin, puts on ordinary clothes and goes out to spend time in the city, ostensibly for an "undercover inspection".
* LargeHam: First Historian Yang Si-haeng is very loud and expressive, but a good boss deep down.
** Prince Dowon, bored with staying in the inner palace, disguises himself as "Assistant Clerk Yi" and helps out the Office of Royal Decrees during the clerks'
** Later on his brother, Crown Prince Yi Jin, puts on ordinary clothes and goes out to spend time in the city, ostensibly for an "undercover inspection".
* LargeHam: First Historian Yang Si-haeng is very loud and expressive, but a good boss deep down.
* TheReliableOne: Officer Min U-won is the most responsible and [[TheStoic stoic]] of the historians, and even First Historian Yang turns to him for difficult decisions. Song Sa-hui is his counterpart among the female historians.
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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: In Episode 6, Goo Hae-ryung brings Dowon to her house since he can't get back into the palace after dark. Her servant Seol-geum immediately assumes that they're sleeping together, and claims that all the servants' rooms are full of drying pumpkins, so the only place he can sleep is in Hae-ryung's room. They end up sleeping on opposite sides of a screen.
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* StrikeEpisode:
** In Episode 6, after the female historians discover the corruption involved in the pay system for government employees, Hae-ryung writes a petition to ban the hiring of clerks to collect officials' pay for them. This calls down the wrath of ''all'' the clerks in the government, who refuse to work until the Office of Royal Decrees issues an apology. The strike is eventually resolved by Hae-ryung and Min meeting with the head clerks [[spoiler:and Min threatening to reveal their corruption]]. This strike is portrayed very negatively compared to...
** In Episode 11, after the king tries to exercise more control over the historians (and [[spoiler:imprisons Goo Hae-ryung]]), they refuse to work, with even TheStoic Min going along with their fake PottyEmergency. Eventually the historians win and maintain their independence after [[spoiler:Min challenges the king to personally kill him if he won't rescind the order]].
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: In Episode 6, Goo Hae-ryung brings Dowon to her house since he can't get back into the palace after dark. Her servant Seol-geum immediately assumes that they're sleeping together, and claims that all the servants' rooms are full of drying pumpkins, so the only place he can sleep is in Hae-ryung's room. They end up sleeping on opposite sides of ascreen.screen.
* ThoseTwoGirls: Dowon's two maidservants don't really do or say much and are mainly there to help Sam-bo.
** In Episode 6, after the female historians discover the corruption involved in the pay system for government employees, Hae-ryung writes a petition to ban the hiring of clerks to collect officials' pay for them. This calls down the wrath of ''all'' the clerks in the government, who refuse to work until the Office of Royal Decrees issues an apology. The strike is eventually resolved by Hae-ryung and Min meeting with the head clerks [[spoiler:and Min threatening to reveal their corruption]]. This strike is portrayed very negatively compared to...
** In Episode 11, after the king tries to exercise more control over the historians (and [[spoiler:imprisons Goo Hae-ryung]]), they refuse to work, with even TheStoic Min going along with their fake PottyEmergency. Eventually the historians win and maintain their independence after [[spoiler:Min challenges the king to personally kill him if he won't rescind the order]].
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: In Episode 6, Goo Hae-ryung brings Dowon to her house since he can't get back into the palace after dark. Her servant Seol-geum immediately assumes that they're sleeping together, and claims that all the servants' rooms are full of drying pumpkins, so the only place he can sleep is in Hae-ryung's room. They end up sleeping on opposite sides of a
* ThoseTwoGirls: Dowon's two maidservants don't really do or say much and are mainly there to help Sam-bo.
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''Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung'' is a [[HistoricalFiction historical]] RomanticComedy Korean drama set in 19th-century Joseon, focusing on free-spirited noblewoman Goo Hae-ryung (Shin Se-kyung), who becomes one of the first female court historians[[note]]In the Joseon dynasty, historians were highly respected officials, and had great leeway in recording ''everything'' the king and royals said or did. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritable_Records_of_the_Joseon_Dynasty Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty]] span 1893 volumes, and are considered very credible due to the independence of the historians.[[/note]] and sheltered prince Yi Rim (also called Dowon) (Cha Eun-woo), who writes romance novels under the pen name Maehwa ("plum blossom").
!!Contains examples of:
* AchievementTestOfDestiny: Like all government bureaucrat positions in Joseon, prospective historians must take an examination.
* CostumePorn: Everyone has elaborate costumes, especially the royals.
* FakeOutMakeOut: When the two of them are caught outside the palace after curfew, Hae-ryung embraces Dowon to distract the guards, though they don't kiss.
* IWasBeatenByAGirl: When Dowon fails to make a bullseye in archery, he challenges Hae-ryung to do better. She gets a bullseye on her first try, to the amusement of the crown prince and the other female historian there.
* TheJeeves: Heo Sam-bo is Prince Dowon's long-suffering manservant, though he's much less of TheStoic than his master.
* KingIncognito: Prince Dowon, bored with staying in the inner palace, disguises himself as "Assistant Clerk Yi" and helps out the Office of Royal Decrees during the clerks' strike.
* PrettyBoy: Prince Dowon is very handsome, as Seol-geum points out.
* PrinceAndPauper: They look nothing alike, but upon finding out that Goo Hae-ryung is working as a historian, Dowon switches clothes with Sam-bo and has the eunuch hide behind a screen to pretend to be the prince. Dowon claims to be relaying the "prince"'s words "in his heart" by ordering her to clean up the house and yard to atone for impersonating Maehwa.
* RunawayBride: Hae-ryung runs away from her own wedding (though the groom had already said he couldn't go through with it, on her request) to take the historians' exam.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Prince Dowon has barely left the inner palace section of Nokseodang his entire life, and it seems the only people he has any regular contact with are his eunuch attendant Heo Sam-bo, his two maids, and sometimes his older brother Yi Jin.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: In Episode 6, Goo Hae-ryung brings Dowon to her house since he can't get back into the palace after dark. Her servant Seol-geum immediately assumes that they're sleeping together, and claims that all the servants' rooms are full of drying pumpkins, so the only place he can sleep is in Hae-ryung's room. They end up sleeping on opposite sides of a screen.
!!Contains examples of:
* AchievementTestOfDestiny: Like all government bureaucrat positions in Joseon, prospective historians must take an examination.
* CostumePorn: Everyone has elaborate costumes, especially the royals.
* FakeOutMakeOut: When the two of them are caught outside the palace after curfew, Hae-ryung embraces Dowon to distract the guards, though they don't kiss.
* IWasBeatenByAGirl: When Dowon fails to make a bullseye in archery, he challenges Hae-ryung to do better. She gets a bullseye on her first try, to the amusement of the crown prince and the other female historian there.
* TheJeeves: Heo Sam-bo is Prince Dowon's long-suffering manservant, though he's much less of TheStoic than his master.
* KingIncognito: Prince Dowon, bored with staying in the inner palace, disguises himself as "Assistant Clerk Yi" and helps out the Office of Royal Decrees during the clerks' strike.
* PrettyBoy: Prince Dowon is very handsome, as Seol-geum points out.
* PrinceAndPauper: They look nothing alike, but upon finding out that Goo Hae-ryung is working as a historian, Dowon switches clothes with Sam-bo and has the eunuch hide behind a screen to pretend to be the prince. Dowon claims to be relaying the "prince"'s words "in his heart" by ordering her to clean up the house and yard to atone for impersonating Maehwa.
* RunawayBride: Hae-ryung runs away from her own wedding (though the groom had already said he couldn't go through with it, on her request) to take the historians' exam.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Prince Dowon has barely left the inner palace section of Nokseodang his entire life, and it seems the only people he has any regular contact with are his eunuch attendant Heo Sam-bo, his two maids, and sometimes his older brother Yi Jin.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: In Episode 6, Goo Hae-ryung brings Dowon to her house since he can't get back into the palace after dark. Her servant Seol-geum immediately assumes that they're sleeping together, and claims that all the servants' rooms are full of drying pumpkins, so the only place he can sleep is in Hae-ryung's room. They end up sleeping on opposite sides of a screen.
