The bullying scene in Netflix’s new Korean Drama ‘The Glory’ is based on real events

Song Hye Kyo’s latest drama on Netflix has been causing a lot of discussion’s on the web with its unique and engaging premise. Particularly, many viewers expressed their extreme emotions after watching the scene when young Moon Dong Eun was bullied by fellow schoolmates.

The Glory depicts the desperate revenge of a woman whose soul was destroyed by school violence. Fun fact: the drama is writer Kim Eun Wook’s first drama with Song Hye Kyo in six years since Descendants of the Sun in 2016.

In The Glory, Song Hye Kyo plays the school bullying victim who had dreams of becoming an architect but was violently bullied in school because she was poor. To exact revenge on her tormentors, she decides to become a school teacher.

In the episode that’s been making rounds on social media sites, young Dong Eun, played by Jung Jiso, was assaulted by a group of bullies—Park Yeon Jin, Jeon Je Joon, Lee Sa Ra, Choi Hye Jung, and Son Myung Ho—in high school.

During this scene, the group is seen burning her arm with a hair iron. After this part of the series aired, it caused a few sentiments among the viewers and online community users. All of them praised the actors and their acting skills, however, on the other hand, they also expressed their shock at how cruel it was.

Do you know what was more shocking? The bullying scene is actually based on actual events that occurred in 2006.

A female student ‘J’ was attending a girls’ middle school in Cheongju at the time and was routinely assaulted by a group of schoolmates led by ‘K.’ One day, ‘K’ burned J’s arm with a hair iron, scratched J’s chest with a hairpin, and stole her money because J came late when K summoned her. In response, The Cheongju District issued an arrest warrant against the perpetrator, K.

Later on, the Netizens responded: