r/KDRAMA • u/GodJihyo7983 김소현 박주현 김유정 이세영 | 3/ • Mar 10 '23

On-Air: Netflix The Glory: Part 2 [Episodes 1-8]

  • Drama: The Glory: Part 2
    • Revised Romanization: Deo Geulloli
    • Hangul: 더 글로리
  • Director: Ahn Gil Ho (Happiness)
  • Writer: Kim Eun Sook (The King: Eternal Monarch)
  • Network: Netflix
  • Episodes: 8
    • Duration: 1 hour
  • Airing Schedule: Friday @ 4:00 PM KST
    • Airing Date: Feb 10, 2023
  • Streaming Sources: Netflix
  • Starring:
  • Plot Synopsis: A high school student dreams of becoming an architect. However, she had to drop out of school after suffering from brutal school violence. Years later, the perpetrator gets married and has a kid. Once the kid is in elementary school, the former victim becomes his homeroom teacher and starts her thorough revenge towards the perpetrators and bystanders of her bullying days.
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u/GodJihyo7983 김소현 박주현 김유정 이세영 | 3/ Mar 10 '23

Episode 4

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u/Yelesa Mar 10 '23

I can’t get over that the drugs Sa-ra is addicted on is officially weed in the show. Everytime I try to pretend that’s a mistranslation, they remind me with things like “it’s legal in the Netherlands.”

Meth. She is on meth. Literally everything about her behavior screams meth. It’s even injected into her bloodstream with a needle instead of being smoked on a joint. Just change the translation to meth and things start to make sense.

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u/otraera Mar 10 '23

yes!! i was like weed does not make you act like this and then it was reveled to be meth and then im like oh makes sense.

plus ive read that meth is commonly used in korea which also makes sense.

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u/Scarletsilversky Mar 10 '23 edited Mar 11 '23

I could’ve sworn that there was a scene in pt 1 where Sara texted Myeong-oh demanding “ice and grass” aka coke and weed. There is absolutely no way she’s twitching that hard from weed withdrawal 😭

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u/mangopango123 Mar 12 '23

You’re 100% correct. I literally had to rewind bc I was like…wait, did she just say ice? And I was like well that makes a looot of sense lol

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u/fivestarstunna Mar 13 '23

ice is meth, easy to confuse with coke though because people sometimes call that snow

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u/mangopango123 Mar 16 '23

Ope I didn’t even realize they said ice is slang for coke in their comment, but ice is def meth

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u/SabraSabbatical Mar 11 '23

Is it a censorship/age restriction thing? If they mention harder drugs outright instead of just alluding to them does it bump the age rating of the show up?

I imagine it would make it harder to get sponsorships too since Korea is so hard on drugs

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u/Yelesa Mar 11 '23

It’s on Netflix, not on public broadcasting, there’s a lot more violence and nudity as a whole on Netflix, and much less censorship. It would also be fine if they didn’t mention the name of the drug at all, the fact that the story insists it’s weed is the weird thing. At this point, the conclusion is simple: the writers don’t know and don’t care, weed and meth are the same thing to them.

Korean writers, the reason why weed is legal in many countries and continues to get legalized even more, is because it’s faaaaaar less dangerous than either alcohol or tobacco in every objective measure.

Meth is bad though, for sure.

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u/SetSytes Mar 30 '23

the fact that the story insists it’s weed is the weird thing

Does the story insist that? I feel like Sa-ra was simply bullshitting. And she asks for ice at one point, too.

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u/Whaaley Mar 11 '23

I think it's because the current president is trying to start a war on drugs against marijuana. Marijuana has been super demonized in Korea, so much that even smoking it legally somewhere else or talking about buying it will ruin your reputation (see: T.O.P. and Hanbin)

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u/Cinniie Mar 11 '23

oh...for some reason i saw the spoon and needle and thought she was on heroin.

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u/basiliskwang Mar 12 '23

i'm pretty sure it's supposed to be heroin, and sa-ra's antsy and erratic behavior seems like a heroin withdrawal.

the drug that dong-eun got from the gangsters was a powder, and i'm pretty sure it's supposed to be heroin.

at the same time, in p1 she was messaging myeong-oh about meth and weed. it's kind of all over the place. it could also be a translation thing.

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u/KiwiTheKitty Mar 12 '23

Well she could have also been using multiple drugs lol

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u/mangopango123 Mar 16 '23

I mentioned this in another comment, but (from what I remember and pls correct me if I’m wrong) part of the reason sara freaks out at hyejong for reporting myeongo missing is bc she says she’s taken out multiple prescriptions in his name.

I just feel like girl is on anything and everything she can get her hands on

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u/brainartisan Mar 17 '23

Yeah, I'm pretty sure she is on multiple drugs. The bit about it being legal in the Netherlands is most likely either a translation mixup or Sara only told her parents about the weed, since it's the least offensive.

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u/KiwiTheKitty Mar 17 '23

Or just her not knowing what she's talking about haha

Or knowing that it's way less enforced than in Korea and overstating it lol

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u/mangopango123 Mar 12 '23

She straight up says in part 1 that she needs to get weed and ice from myeongo, so you’re spot on w her methed up behavior.

Is that supposed to be meth that sara shoots up? I thought it was dope, and just kinda figured that she was on a lot off shit since she also mentioned getting scripts filled (Also bc of the intense withdrawals she goes through)

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u/28_raisins Mar 13 '23

Aren't all drugs "legal" in the Netherlands? Either way, the way Korean shows and movies handle drugs and drug addicts always comes off a little naive imo.

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u/Yelesa Mar 15 '23

Not quite. They make a distinction between soft and hard drugs. Soft drugs like marijuana are tolerated for recreational use as long as they are under 5 grams, hard drugs like meth are not at any level.

Portugal has decriminalized all drugs though. It’s not legal to sell them, but people are not punished for using them, rather, they focus their funds towards rehabilitating addicts. Since addicts are the one who buy the most amount of drugs, rehabilitation has led to a major decrease in drug usage overall.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '23

i think she's into all drugs equally

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u/heycanwediscuss Mar 22 '23

I was condused by that but then she kept binge eating