The historicity of The Spring of Woonhyun Palace is the variation of self improving discourse and characters’ desires are represented by the 'possible structure’. It makes them open two possibilities that the story may take; two altanative functions. They are usually progresses or regresses(successes or failures) that the characters will be faced. The narrative of the self improvement keeps on transferring to the possible structure and fascinates addicted readers from the ‘modernity’ called the progress. Therefore, the possible structure becomes the internal principle of The Spring of Woonhyun Palace and can be read systematically by the readers. Dong-in Kim re-illuminates the value of 'Confucian habits of the mind’ by reviving and retracing the past in The Spring of Woonhyun Palace. The lives of the humans hounded to the tradition and custom are performed as central characters of the narrative. Characters are moral humans distressed and suffered from the self-improvement. Confucian morality becomes the secret of realizing the social relations of characters showing modern political value. Confucian morality connects the past and the present and is revived as a beauty of Korean modern novel. Now modern literature sparkles with the trace of revival, not by fading away of confucian morality.