The Glory Korean New Web Series Season 1 Episode No 1 Recap And Review

Episode No 1 Recap 

Episode 1 of The Glory begins with Moon Dong-eun driving to Semyeong and renting a place at Eden Apartments. It's nicely situated and has pictures of Park Yeon-jin and others who bully her on the walls.

  He starts imagining Yeon-Jin walking into her house and not recognizing her. He describes himself hitting Yeon-jin with a stapler and vowing to kill her. He begins to explain what brought him to this moment in 

 2004

  In 2004, a young Dong-eun filed an official police report about the bullying he received at his high school. Police chief Shin Yeong-jun calls Yeon-jin's mother, who promises to clear the case easily. Apparently, he and Yeon-ji's mother are childhood friends, and he even helps her through her divorce.

  Yeong-jun casually asks Yeon-jin to stop bullying her fellow students. The remaining bullies take the guardians. A teacher from their school comes to the police station and Dong-eun acts as the legal guardian. He chastises her for going to the police over what she sums up as a "little prank".

  He is not happy that the vice principal found out about the case. Yeon-jin's mother is disappointed in her because she couldn't handle Dong-eun, not because she's a bully.

  The next day, Dong-eun's condition worsens when Yeon-jin burns her arm with a hair iron. The group tortures, taunts and sexually assaults her. The nurse wonders why he needs the hydrogen peroxide, and Dong-eun lies that he wants to clean the blood off his shirt.

  A nurse checks Dong-eu's arms and is shocked by the burn marks. He asks Dong-eun who hurt him, but Dong-eun refuses to answer. A nurse volunteers to help her report the case to her teacher, but Yeon-jin (who was also on the phone with her mother at the school hospital) announces her presence and admits that she was the one who hurt Dong-eun. After a few days, the nurse quit.

  Later, Dong-eun goes home and finds Yeon-jin and the gang at his place. They entered his house and already started making themselves comfortable. They have a few drinks and Yeon-jin robs the place and finds Dong-eu's piggy bank. She asks Dong-eun to either dance for them or be burned with a hand iron to get their deposit back. They use hand irons on his legs.

  Dong-eun reaches his breaking point and contemplates suicide. He decides to drop out of school and cites his bullies as the reason for transferring. The deputy principal has a conflict with the class teacher. The teacher calls Dong-eun and berates him for choosing to cite rich kids as the reason. He asks her to go back to school and collect her things.

In the staff office (teacher's room), Dong-eun defends herself and gets on the teacher's bad side. He slaps her repeatedly until the rest of the teachers step in to stop her. Elsewhere, Dong-eun's mother (she works at a seedy salon) calls about her daughter.

  Yeon-jin has a meeting with her mother, who gives her money as settlement. He agrees to sign the papers, citing Dong-eun's reason for leaving as a misfit. Dong-eun finds out about the payment and betrayal when her mother moves out of the house without telling her the day after.

  Dong-eun takes a few low-paying jobs to survive and contemplates suicide again. Fortunately, he doesn't accept his decision and chooses to live. He returns to school one last time and promises to meet Yeon-Jin again. He tells Yeon-jin that it's his wish and leaves.

  2006-2008

  Dong-eun uses this time to study at home, but also works to support herself. He's still trying to get his revenge on Yeon-jin.

  2009

  Dong-eun enters Eucheon University of Education and proceeds to seek revenge on Yeon-jin.

  Present tense

  Dong-eun makes the first contact with Yeon-ji's daughter in Ha Ye-sol and tells her how he knows her mother. Meanwhile, Yeon-jin works as a weather anchor for a TV channel.

 

  Episode Review

  I was impressed by Song Hye Kyo in this episode, a much better performance than her last project, Now We're Breaking Up. Hopefully this will be consistent for the rest of the show.

  K-dramas have some of the worst violence ever, and this show certainly takes it a step further. I don't blame Dong-eun for revenge, but I'm not sure he should have involved Yeon-jin's daughter.

 Seeing the adults ignore Dong-eun's plight was both heartbreaking and deeply disturbing. own selfish reasons. The teacher who slapped him might better understand what happened to Dong-eu in his revenge plans.

  For those who have been bullied, this show can be a trigger. Make sure you're mentally prepared before you start, but what's here promises to be quite the drama.