The Glory

December 30, 2022

Moon Dong-eun (Song Hye-kyo) has spent her adult life building a single, meticulous plan. As the new homeroom teacher of her chief tormentor's daughter, she places the first piece.

December 30, 2022

The full horror of Dong-eun's school years is shown — the burns, the broken bones, the institutional failure to protect her. Park Yeon-jin (Lim Ji-yeon) is established as the drama's central villain.

December 30, 2022

Dong-eun meets Ha Do-young (Jung Sung-il), Yeon-jin's husband, over a game of Go (Baduk) at a park. He is not what she expected.

December 30, 2022

Each member of the bully group is shown in their adult life — successful, guilty, separately fragile. Dong-eun knows exactly where each pressure point is.

December 30, 2022

The first wave of Dong-eun's plan lands. The bullies begin to feel something closing in. The drama's first cliffhanger.

March 10, 2023

Ha Do-young's full knowledge of Dong-eun's plan is revealed. He has been watching and waiting with his own agenda.

March 10, 2023

Yeon-jin's daughter — Dong-eun's student — becomes a pawn in the final stage of the plan. The drama's most morally complex episode.

March 10, 2023

The plan's final stage executes. Everything Dong-eun built over decades converges simultaneously. Yeon-jin's world falls apart in full view of the people whose respect she cultivated.

March 10, 2023

The finale. The fifth most-watched non-English Netflix show ever, with 622 million hours viewed. A conclusion that earns every moment of its catharsis without sentimentality.