Moon Dong-eun

Moon Dong-eun (Korean: 문동은) is the main protagonist of the Netflix 2022 Korean drama series The Glory. She is the nemesis of Park Yeonjin, the daughter of Jeong Mi-hee and the wife of Joo Yeo-jeong. She currently works as a teacher for inmates at Ji-san prison.
She was portrayed by Song Hye-kyo as an adult and by Jung Ji-so as a teenager. 
== Biography ==
Moon Dongeun was born in roughly 1987-1988 to a Barber, Jeong Mi-hee. Her father's given name is unknown. Jeong Mi-hee lamented that she was encouraged to get an abortion whilst she was pregnant with Dong-eun, yet decided to keep her, the two lived in seemingly impoverished conditions off of a low salary and stayed in a motel.
For her high school education, Moon Dong-eun would attend Sung-han High School, but quickly decided to drop out due being the victim of severe bullying from Park Yeonjin, Son Myeong-O, Choi Hyejeong, Jeon Jae-jun and Lee Sara, a quintet of students from affluent backgrounds, who mocked Dong-eun for being poor, assaulting her and vandalising her belongings, besides other things. Park Yeonjin, was the most severe member of the group, and would sadistically put her hot curling iron on Moon Dong-eun's limbs causing her agony and leaving her severely wounded with large third degree burns and delighted in the fact that she could get away with such cruelty without consequences. The Bullies would never be given legal consequences for their actions as Park Yeonjin's mother, Hong Young-ae would pay out hefty sums of money to the teachers, parents and authorities to drop the charges, Hong Young-ae also used her friendship with a corrupt police officer to have Park's crimes covered up.
When Moon Dong-eun went back to her school to tell the teachers she was dropping out due to bullying, a neglectful male teacher told her off even yelling at her, dismissing her abuse from the school bullies and saying she should stay at the school and that it was normal for kids to hurt their friends, before proceeding to physically attack her, after Dongeun mentioned his son, the other teachers tried to hold him back from hurting the girl anymore before Moon departed school for good, having been callously and severely abused and suicidal there and left with no help or justice.She vowed to herself that she would get her own vengeance on her perpetrators and give them justice herself. 
After dropping out of school she worked at Sungwu Textiles Factory as well as a chef and cleaner at a restaurant, whilst studying for her high school GED. After passing this qualification she attended Euicheon University of Education and to support herself financially worked as Tutor, many of the kids she tutored were snobby and rude, but she managed to deal with them before getting her degree and achieving her dream of becoming a teacher, at university she also became friends with Joo Yeojeong who taught her how to play Go, a Korean board game. 18 years later, having gathered enough information on her bullies, she decided to take action against them once and for all.. 
== Synopsis ==
== Appearance ==
Moon Dong-eun is a Korean woman in her mid thirties, she has light skin, dark brown eyes with double eyelids and sleek, straight bobbed black hair, that she usually wears loose, she has a thin figure and is of average height. She often dresses in black. Moon usually wears smart clothing such as a shirt, a dark blazer and trousers at work. She has also been seen wearing dresses with heels in her spare time.
She was also seen in Flashbacks as a 16-17 year old girl where she also sported a bob cut and wore her school uniform before dropping out of Sunghan High School. As a drop out, she dressed casually, often in a jumper and trousers with trainers.
== Personality ==
== Skills and Abilities ==
* Meticulous Planning: For 18 years, Dong-Eun planned an extremely complex revenge plan with a multitude of moving parts, and executed it carefully over a long period of time. Being able to plan and foresight the ajority of the events in the series, only making one major mistake, and being caught off guard only once. (Park Yeon-Jin managing to find out that she had been working with Kang Hyeon-Nam, which she easily made a contingency for, and her mother finding her workplace.)
* Genius-level intelligence: Managed to figure out KIm Gyeong-ram was the one who really murdered Myeong-O. Remembered that one of the photos on her wall was missing, and immediately deduced that Park Yeon-jin found out that she was working with someone. 
== Relationships ==
Jeong Mi-hee- The estranged mother of Moon Dong-eun, she appeared to have Moon Dong-eun out of wedlock, and according to her, she was encouraged to get an abortion when she was pregnant with her but instead kept her. The two were not very close, as Jeong Mi-hee worked long hours away from her daughter at a Barbershop. Jeong still however provided her daughter with a place to live and other necessities. However would end up betraying her own daughter in 2004, after signing a contract with Hong Young-ae (Park Yeonjin's mother) to agree to change the reason for Moon's Dong-eun's dropout from school to maladjustment from bullying, with the promise of money in return. Which made Moon Dong-eun's bullies, Park Yeonjin, Lee Sara, Jeon Jae-jun, Choi Hyejeong and Song Myeong O escape punishment for assaulting her including burning her with a curling iron. Jeong Mi-hee, would leave her daughter in a hotel, using the money she got from Hong Young-ae to go somewhere else, leaving her daughter to become completely independent at 16. Eighteen years after this by 2022- mother and daughter have been estranged for over 10 years, but Jeong comes back into her daughter's life, after making a deal with her daughter's nemesis, Park Yeonjin, to get Moon fired from her job at Semyeong Elementary School, with a hefty sum of money in return. Jeong arrives to Moon Dong-eun's workplace greeting her outside and then visits Moon's apartment squatting there with her boyfriend. Moon Dong-eun finds out her mother is working with her enemy, Park Yeonjin in getting her fired from her job to get money in return and Moon quits her job before she can be fired. She then approaches her mother about her second betrayal, Jeong responds by telling her daughter that she could have been rich if she had waited to be fired from her job,(with Jeong having been paid a fortune for completing her mission). Moon becomes angry and starts cutting the designer handbags Jeong had paid for using the money she had been given by Park Yeonjin, then Jeong Mi-hee accidentally starts a fire in Moon's apartment whilst cackling with laughter and allows the apartment to burn, Jeong also insults her daughter, even swearing and says she never should have given birth to her. Moon responds by tearfully telling her mother to never change and that she was the first one to betray her. Though the two escape, the apartment becomes burned down. Later on Moon Dong-eun travels with her mother to a Psychiatric hospital, where they have an appointment with a psychiatrist and talk about Jeong's mental health, Moon also shows the psychiatrist footage of her mother burning her apartment and shouting at her and the doctors diagnose Jeong Mi-hee with delusions and intermittent explosive disorder and decide to have her sectioned based on the evidence. Jeong tries to fight the doctors off of her, as they take her to the Psych ward and yells at her daughter for doing this to her but Moon responds that she is the only person who can do this as she is the only person her mother has left, even hugging her before walking away, as Jeong is being taken down the hall she continues to angrily yell at her daughter with swears. It is assured that Moon got her mother sectioned-as she threatened Moon's plans against punishing Park Yeonjin.
Joo Yeo-Jeong - A handsome young doctor and plastic surgeon, who meets Moon Dong-eun at her university campus, the two become friends and he teaches her how to play Go- a Korean board game. The two also form a romantic relationship and Yeo-Jeong also decides to help Moon in carrying out vengeance on her school bullies. 
Ha Do-Yeong - Park Yeon-jin's ex-husband and Ha Ye-sol's legal father. Do-yeong befriends Dong-eun while playing Go, not knowing that she has been stalking his family for years. 
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