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Netflix K-drama The Glory Part 2: vendetta of Song Hye-kyo’s bullying victim turned avenger starts to pall as new set of episodes kick off

  • Song Hye-kyo returns in The Glory Part 2 as a woman seeking revenge on her high school bullies – with her main tormentor beginning to fight back
  • The first two episodes of Part 2 lack the punch of Part 1, but there is every chance the show will pick up its pace as it approaches its endgame

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Song Hye-kyo as Moon Dong-eun in a still from The Glory. The show’s second part sees Dong-eun’s main tormentor begin to fight back. Photo: Graphyoda/Netflix

After a gripping launch last year, Korean drama series The Glory returns on March 10 with a second set of eight episodes.

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The episodes are billed as “Part 2”, and this is an important distinction, as this is not a second season. Rather, The Glory is a 16-episode show – the standard length of most Korean broadcast and cable dramas – that has been split into two chunks.

What that means is that Part 2 dumps us in something of a midseason lull, unlike a fresh season of a show that would normally seek to open with a bang.

The goal remains the same. Moon Dong-eun (Song Hye-kyo) is in the final phase of her vendetta against her high-school tormentors, chief among them Park Yeon-jin (Lim Ji-yeon).

She is a teacher at the fancy private school attended by Yeon-jin’s daughter Ha Ye-sol (Oh Ji-yul) and she has already revealed herself to Yeon-jin and her clique – Yeon-jin’s sometime lover Jeon Jae-jun (Park Sung-hoon), druggy artist Lee Sa-ra (Kim Hieora), gold-digger Choi Hye-jeong (Cha Joo-young) and meathead Son Myeong-o (Kim Gun-woo).

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