The Glory Part 2

“The Glory Part 2” is the culmination of one of the most compelling revenge narratives in modern television — a story that burns slowly, deliberately, and with devastating precision. It doesn’t just deliver retribution; it forces you to confront the pain that makes revenge feel necessary in the first place. Every frame is sharp, every silence heavy, every emotion earned.

Song Hye-kyo gives a career-defining performance as Moon Dong-eun. Her portrayal is all restraint — eyes that reveal oceans of rage and sorrow beneath an outward calm. She embodies a survivor who refuses to be pitied, reclaiming her agency in the most methodical way possible. Lee Do-hyun as Joo Yeo-jung adds warmth and complexity, showing how love can coexist with trauma and vengeance without dissolving either. Their quiet bond — built on shared pain — is one of the show’s most striking elements.

The writing remains razor-sharp. Every subplot connects elegantly back to Dong-eun’s plan, and the pacing in Part 2 balances tension with catharsis. The series doesn’t glorify revenge; instead, it studies it — asking what’s left after justice is finally served. The dialogues are sparse but weighted with meaning; the pauses are as eloquent as the words.

Visually, “The Glory Part 2” is breathtaking — muted tones, haunting compositions, and minimalist lighting that mirrors Dong-eun’s emotional landscape. The direction is surgical, letting the performances breathe while maintaining a constant sense of dread.

More than a story of vengeance, “The Glory Part 2” is about reclamation — of power, dignity, and self. It’s not a tale of heroes or villains, but of wounds that demand to be acknowledged.

Cold, elegant, and unforgettable — “The Glory Part 2” doesn’t just conclude a revenge story; it perfects it.

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A PERFECT 10 STARS! ???

I always loved revenge plots, whether it’s comedy or thriller. This drama just gave me everything I’m looking for in a revenge plot. I haven’t finished K-dramas in a long time—even Mouse can’t make me this addicted and entertained—so for me to be able to finish this drama is a miracle.

The ending was very much satisfying. Everyone gets their revenge, and every good person gets their happy ending. I must admit the first episodes of Part 2 isn’t the best compared to the 8 episodes on Part 1, but it was still great nonetheless. I’ve read how some people think Lee Do Hyun’s character isn’t really necessary, but I personally think the romance is a cute little addition that could balance out all the violence and gore.

The acting… JAW-DROPPINGLY EXCELLENT. Everyone acted SO SO GOOD. I can officially say this is the one K-drama with no bad actors and actresses. The music… EXCELLENT. Everything about this drama is excellent. Just super great. Super duper recommended! 10/10 🌟

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Glorious ending

The Glory Part 1 and Part 2 (2023)

Likes
1. Wow story was fast paced, acting was briliant. The whole revenge plot was perfectly developed and executed by Dong Eun. And the best part is she didnt even have to get her hands dirty. She merely exposed their sins, and they destroyed each other. I thought every bad guy in the story deserved their fate.
2. My fave scene of SHK was when she found out her mom betrayed her again and they had their argument in the apartment and the mom started the fire. Plus the last episode when she was crying after everything was done and she was at the rooftop. (It was just weird how Yeo Jeong's mom was there to stop her from jumping. Did she follow her?)
3. Yeonjin was so bratty and self entitled all through out. I cant believe the nerve of her! She bullied kids, killed 2 people, yet she refuse to admit them, and is even the one getting angry when caught. She had no remorse at all!!!
4. Loved the 2 male leads, cute puppy doctor Yeo Jeong who would do anything for Dong Eun and the hot ahjuicy Do Yeong who probably would have pursued Dong Eun in another life (my alternate ending).
5. Also loved Hyeon Nam. Hope she gets a chance to go to the US and see her daughter.
6. The other bullies were also evil. Plus Yeonjin's mom, the corrupt detective, Hyeon Nam's husband, ugly haired pervert teacher. Lol everyone got punished!!

Dislikes
1. Son Myeong O's disappearance went on for too long when he was obviously dead. And it was obvious who had the most motive to kill him, yet the writer tried to prolong the reveal by giving other characters possible motive.
2. Instead they could have focused on finishing Yeo Jeong's revenge on Yeong Cheon and showing the couple moving forward and living happily together.

Rating: 9/10

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Sweet Sweet Revenge!

One woman's revenge against her high school bullies. Every time she took one of them down, it was entertaining.

I loved it! A good show connects you to the cause of the victim and that's exactly what The Glory did. The show also evokes a lot of emotions. Anger, tears, joy, delight, shock, fear, and more. It has everything you can ask for in a revenge thriller! Just one warning - part 2 contains frontal female nudity. It's brief but was unexpected.

I have to say, that when I first saw the trailer for part 2, I was worried that this will be a torturous journey for the female lead but for the most part, things panned out pretty well. I loved the variety in the revenge for each of them as well. And for some it was unexpected but a well-deserved fate.

Moon Dong Eun emoted so well especially the moments when you see her in her raw/weak moments. I felt the same way in the first season. Again her younger counterpart portrayed her helplessness beautifully. I just wanted to hug her in some of those moments. I felt her anguish. And I was happy she formed alliances who were there to support her now.

Lee De Hyun as Joo Yeo Jung was a delight. I smiled every time he was on screen. Who wouldn't want someone like him as their supporter/executioner. I enjoyed his chemistry with Doon Eun and do wish there was a bit more. But then this isn't a romance drama so I'll take what I can get.

Kang Hyun Nam is another delightful character. Her situation is like that of many women in domestic abuse cases who have no option and stay for the safety of their children. I especially loved it when she finally cussed him out at the end as well as her last interaction with Yeon Jin when she gave her a taste of her own medicine. I laughed out loud.

Park Yeon Jin was definitely the crazy character that made this show worth it. Yet again I have to give it to Shin Ye Eun's scarier performance as the bully. Im Ji Yeon did well too but at times she felt weak. Considering everything, she seemed to get the lightest punishment as she still had zero regrets.

The show was a fantastic binge watch. Perhaps the only thing that could have been better was if Dong Eun physically beat them up. She didn't have to. I just like female characters who can fight well and I love action scenes.

The ending may seem like an open-ending but it's just left some things to the imagination. Though I wouldn't mind another season focused on that.

I would definitely recommend both parts to be seen in sequence as that's how it was originally meant to be. The second part definitely has the meat of the revenge plot.

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Fell off after season 1

Since season 1 was very good (I gave it an 8.5) I cant give this less than a 7.5 but it's underwhelming compared to season 1. I initially dropped it until episode 6 but finished until the end just because of the antagonists' acting (which was good from the beginning to the end) and I was curious about the ending which disappointed me.

Positives:
already mentionned

Negatives:
- Song Hyekyo's acting was bland. She had only one expression all the time. I only felt empathetic to her younger self. She's the only reason I rooted for her character (she did a great job as well as the young versions of the antagonists). Same thing for PYJ's husband, at the beginning like many people, I was rooting for him to be with MDE but I guess their chemistry hided his subpar acting skills.
- Who casted Lee Dohyun should be fired. Not only his acting was annoying (I loved him in 18 Again but he had the same expressions there and here even though it doesn't fit, so I guess this role didn't suit him at all), his chemistry with Song Hyekyo, according to my personal chemistry rating scale, was an F. They had no visual chemistry due to the 14 year age gap (and then they dare say that JYJ is older than her). When they kissed at the end I was mad. He's like her nephew and she never even loved him the whole series. I don't understand why anyone would cast Lee Dohyun. He's even more annoying than Song Hyekyo even though he had better acting.
- As someone else said, the FL had a lot of plans in season 1 but in season 2, she got away really easily with luck, and didn't suffer at all. It was boring that PYJ was always the one to lose. Junjae also should have suffered wayy more.
- I would've liked it if Junjae ended up in jail like PYJ, instead of dying peacefully. He should've paid the consequences to his actions. I thought Moon Donggeun was gonna reveal that he raped Yoon Sohee and PYJ cheated on her husband with him.
- What about Choi Hyejeong? Losing her voice isn't enough. And as the doctor said there was a small chance that she could find her voice again.
- Would've wanted to see Lee Sara in jail and Kang Hyeonnam with her daughter again.
- Why didn't we get to see JYJ's revenge on the killer of his father?
- And many other complaints. I'm generous to give it a 7.5 just because of the first season.

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What an amazing moment I spent watching this drama...

Unless three dramas I've completed, I've been in a kdrama slump for years... I then tried to give a go to The Glory since it was the first time Song Hyekyo acted in such drama and the trailer was interesting. I am not regretting this AT ALL!! I'm so glad I chose to watch it since the ending was perfect to me. The drama was well-structured and there aren't any major plotholes like we can encounter in most dramas. I'm so glad that I was finally watching a drama with a decent ending. Good job to everybody, from the screenwriter to the actors who did an amazing job making this project an amazing one.

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Good Enough

Korean Drama " The Glory Season 2 " is the continuation of the revenge melodrama, giving the conclusion to the story.

And even though there were a lot of things happening, as the main villains started fighting back, providing some resistance to the revenge plan, the drama got messy and even, at some points, boring. They opted to focus on the romance, which was its weakest point, especially since it messed with the mood of the drama and the leads' chemistry wasn't strong enough to support it. At least, it aided to the character development of the main lead and gave her some breathing space to be more humane and less miserable.

The performances, finally, were, just like in the first season, great by everyone in the cast.

So, overall, five out of ten.

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Riveting to Watch, but Intentionally Amoral (Morally Grey)

I stayed up to watch part 2 of The Glory the moment the clock hit 3:00 am and boy, was it a Journey.

The Glory (pt. 2) is meant to be a completely satisfying revenge story between a victim against her abuser and we somewhat know the story’s end from its beginning. From part 1 we know of our female lead’s tenacity and dedication towards getting her resolute end, we just aren’t quite sure how things will unravel.

The Glory in many ways feels like sort of a revenge expose to its audience as well. I got this feeling that any audience member who had ever bullied a person in the past would think of their own victims while watching it. It felt like it was pointing a finger to the audience saying, “I know what you’ve done, and I’m coming for you.”

Ultimately, The Glory pt. 2 continues from its first part to serve as an extremely slow burn revenge story. It was like Dong Eun was metaphorically thrusting a knife very slowly into her abusers, perhaps paralleling the slow torture she faced as a child by these abusers. Like the game of “Go,” She takes territory from her enemies little by little. They are aware of her plays yet completely helpless against her overall strategy.

What is interesting is that even as we witness this metaphorical knife penetrate deeper and deeper, we aren’t given a very clear sense of what revenge looks like “in real life.” What does it look like to “win” in revenge? The police system was portrayed as incompetent at best and corrupt at average. Every opportunity to rectify the violence inflicted upon victims through “formal” channels was obsolete. The worst thing about this concept of ineffective justice pipelines is that they are inconsistently applied and often feel as though the greatest effort of “the law” doesn’t truly bring justice for those whom need it the most.


My Thoughts on The Glory’s Philosophy:
I personally don’t particularly agree with The Glory’s philosophy of direct retribution carefully planned out in a way that consumes one’s own existence. I also found it difficult to stomach that revenge was Dong Eun’s entire heart. What is most unfortunate of all, though, is the fact that if Dong Eun did not become the executor of revenge, there is little clear path as to how any form of legal justice would be served against said abusers. Again, the Glory left me with the question “what does true revenge look like?”



SPOILERS FROM HERE ON BELOW:

My Thoughts on the State of the Abusers Pre-Revenge:
Something I thought was particularly significant about the set-up of the story is in how Dong Eun views Yeon Jin by way of her brand image rather than her reality. Yeon Jin appears to have things set out pretty well for her, but in reality: Yeon Jin appears to have a college degree yet no knowledge on a field she actually enjoys working in. She’s so incompetent that she has to have her husband pay multiple times her salary to keep her job—she isn’t good at her job because she didn’t study hard, which is entirely her own fault. She supposedly has a pretty decent husband yet cheats on him. She would literally be nothing without the looks and money she inherited from her parents, but on her own she has nothing.

What’s worst is that I think Yeon Jin is aware of her own pathetic-ness, but chooses to hide behind money and a pitifully mean personality. If others don’t bow down to her she can’t distinguish herself as being at the top because she knows that without money and fake-pride, she is nothing. Yeon Jin’s only real pride and joy is her daughter, yet she fails at this, too, by literally falsifying circumstances surrounding her birth father. She seeks atonement through her daughters eyes, not through actually atoning in her actions. Most of all, she fails her daughter almost automatically by way of being an inherently unrepentant person.

Even though the reality is that all Dong Eun’s abusers are pitiful people at best, how could this thought be of “comfort” to her in the midst of exceptionally deep longstanding pain. This kept bringing up the question for me as to “what does true revenge look like?” And “could there have been another way?”



On Repentance and Forgiveness:
I think The Glory did a decent job at acknowledging that revenge didn’t fulfil any life meaning for Dong Eun, yet it also somewhat backtracked on this premise by rededicating her life to a new purpose— which is helping her BAE to get revenge, too. To me, this journey of healing in Dong Eun’s life still feels incomplete and especially incomplete without her love interest, which I find dangerous in their specific dependance on one another rooted in revenge. I don’t think revenge is all there is to their relationship, yet it almost feels like their love is majorly sidelined because revenge is the priority. It's the concept that revenge is meaningful enough, but not love on it own. This feels like a dangerous concept.

Most of all forgiveness, which is usually more about the victims inner healing rather than the abusers, was completely absent from the Glory. This made our protagonists journeys feel even more incomplete because inner healing was deemed as impossible without revenge. This facet of the story felt pretty one dimensional for me, but then again, I am a Christian and therefore believe in the fruits that forgiveness and repentance bears. It appears as though Dong Eun was 'merely' matching up evils against evils, but in reality she took on the role of a wicked person herself in order to gain physical justice she could bear witness to. I thought of this in particular when she "tempts" Hye Jeong with the opportunity to permanently blind Jae Joon. Yes Hye Jeong took the "temptation" but Dong Eun was the tempter to begin with. This was a theme constantly repeated throughout the show.


Vengeance Fulfilled? (story ending spoiler):
One scene that I thought was particularly revealing was when both Yeon Jin and her mother were in prison they cross each other’s paths. It felt like the truth of the revenge story became exacerbated in that scene— Yeon Jin’s mother wasn’t actually sorry for committing murder and neither was Yeon Jin sorry for committing two murders. Yeon Jin’s mother hardly even glanced in her direction, offered her no apologies or desire to restore their relationship. Yeon Jin’s abandonment was made complete in that scene, but so was Yeon Jin’s mother’s formal abandonment of her rights as a mother. Rather than that scene having anything to do with Dong Eun, however, it felt clarifying to see the effect that amoral parenting can have on replicating amorality in children. It also felt like a powerful testimony in making different choices than our environments sometimes negatively influence.

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Just delightful pice

As a person that was bullied in school, this drama was hard to watch for me. But I'm so so happy I tried. The first part was... A rollercoaster at least. It was brutal, hard to watch, and taking all your guts out, as it should. Bullying isn't pretty, isn't anything but disgusting. And this drama shows it in the best possible way.
I was sad in the first part, how little screen time Do Hyun had, but the second part made it up for me. Even if I hate adding romance to this kind of drama, in this one it was perfectly made, not too much, not too little, just right. I was waiting for the kiss, and they gave me just what I wanted in the best way.
And I wouldn't be myself if I didn't say anything about the music. I can't find words for how good it is. It gives the cherry on top to this piece.

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