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Netflix K-drama The Glory: Song Hye-kyo plays bullying victim in deliciously overblown revenge saga

  • Netflix series The Glory tells the story of a woman who, 16 years after being mercilessly bullied at school, exacts revenge on her aggressors
  • The Korean drama, starring Song Hye-kyo, is gloriously overblown entertainment that will have you screaming bloody murder at the characters on the screen

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Song Hye-kyo stars as Moon Dong-eun, a woman who was horrifically bullied in high school and is out to get her revenge, in Netflix’s The Glory.
Pierce Conran

“I’ll be your killer.” Who knew those words could be so romantic? Kim Eun-sook, apparently, who penned the line for her new show and first Netflix original series The Glory.

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After a relatively quiet year, Netflix looks set to end 2022 with a bang by launching this revenge drama starring Song Hye-kyo, which reunites her with writer Kim six years after Descendants of the Sun. In between, Kim scripted the 2018 hit drama Mr. Sunshine.

In the director’s chair for the eight-episode series is Stranger and Happiness director Ahn Gil-ho.
Glossy genre shows like Squid Game have been generating plenty of column inches around the world, but the real innovation brewing in the K-drama industry these days seems to be the production of high-class soap operas.
Korean soaps, known as makjang dramas, have long been a major draw. A few years ago a new breed of prime time soap emerged, spearheaded by Sky Castle.
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