Hallyu queen Song Hye Kyo is set to return with a new K-drama The Glory, as she teams up with rising star Lee Do Hyun. Some are excited for Song Hye Kyo’s drama comeback. However, others are not as thrilled. Keep on reading for all the details.
Besides Song Hye Kyo and Lee Do Hyun, headlining the series, Im Ji Yeon, Park Sung Hoon, Jung Sung Il, and Yeom Hye Ran will also appear as lead stars.
As mentioned by the streaming giant, Song Hye Kyo will begin her much-awaited revenge with Lee Do Hyun, who was a secret story.
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Besides the interesting cast lineup, The Glory is penned by Kim Eun Sook, who wrote The Heirs, Mr. Sunshine, The King: Eternal Monarch, and Song Hye Kyo’s Descendant of the Sun. At the same time, the forthcoming K-drama is helmed by Ahn Gil Ho, the director behind Stranger, Memories of the Alhambra, Happiness, and Record of Youth.
While fans are looking forward to the A-listers’ comeback to the small screen, some viewers are dismayed with the pairing of lead stars.
According to an outlet, The Glory is gaining criticism after it officially confirmed lead stars Song Hye Kyo and Lee Do Hyun.
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Disappointed viewers expressed that the 14-year-age gap seems odd, while some even pointed out that the actress seems like she likes men younger than her.
However, Lee Do Hyun’s role remains a mystery since it is not stated whether he will be the love interest of Song Hye Kyo’s character.
In the upcoming K-drama, the Hallyu queen takes the role of Moon Dong Eun, who once suffered harassment during her high school years. Due to this, she promised to make them pay by spending years plotting revenge against the bullies who destroyed her childhood.
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As for Lee Do Hyun, he will be Joo Yeo Jung, whose character is described as happy and cheerful on the outside but harbors a complicated secret.
Lim Ji Yeon will play the role of Park Yeon Jin, the high school queen bee responsible for ruining Moon Dong Eun’s life, while Jung Sung Il will play the the role of Yeon Jin’s husband, Ha Do Young, and the CEO of a major construction company.
It was followed by her comeback K-drama, Now, We Are Breaking Up, with Jang Ki Young, who is 11 years younger than the actress.
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However, despite the odd pairing, as some viewers raised, fans defended Song Hye Kyo and mentioned they could feel the duo’s on-screen chemistry.is a South Korean actress. She gained international popularity through her leading roles in the television dramas Autumn in My Heart (2000), All In (2003), Full House (2004), That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013), Descdants of the Sun (2016), counter (2018) and The Glory (2022). Her film work includes Hwang Jin Yi (2007), The Grandmaster (2013), My Brilliant Life (2014), and The Ques (2015).
She is referred to as one of The Troika, along with Kim Tae-hee and Jun Ji-hyun, collectively known by the bld word Tae-Hye-Ji. The success of Song’s television dramas internationally established her as a top Hallyu star.
Wh Song was born, she was so ill that her parts and doctors thought that she would not survive. Upon her recovery, Song’s parts registered her birth on February 26, 1982 (instead of her actual birthdate, November 22, 1981).
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They moved from her birthplace in Daegu to the Gangnam District in Seoul, where she trained as a figure skater in elemtary school but quit wh she was in the eighth grade.
Song considered herself shy and introverted, but wh she attded Ewha Girls’ High School she was described by her high school teacher as having a cheerful character, she mixed well with her frids and was always in a bright mood.
In 1996, the fourte-year-old Song, th a third-year junior high school studt, won first place in the SunKyung Smart Model Contest, and made her tertainmt debut as a model for the school uniform company.
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This led to her being cast in a small role in her first television drama, First Love. She would continue to appear in a string of dramas and sitcoms, most notably Soonpoong Clinic.
But it was not until the KBS drama Autumn in My Heart in 2000 with Song Seung-heon and Won Bin that she rose to fame in Korea and throughout Asia.
The romantic melodrama series was a ratings success, pioneering a trd in Korean melodramatic series and launching a trd that is commonly referred to as the Korean Wave and leading to Song becoming a Hallyu star.
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In 2003, her popularity continued to climb as she played a leading role alongside Lee Byung-hun in the gambling drama All In,
Early 2005, Song wt to San Francisco to study glish, and later traveled to Seattle. She took time off to recharge herself after the successful Asia drama Full House. I have had a good rest. It was a good opportunity to reflect on myself, said Song. Song returned to Korea on March 5, 2005.
The same year, Song made her big-scre debut in My Girl and I (a Korean remake of Crying Out Love in the Cter of the World), which was panned by audices and critics alike. Vocal about her dissatisfaction with typecasting in the roles she was being offered,
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Because they found Song’s image too cute, Jun Ji-hyun and Soo Ae were the producers’ original choices for the role, but Song wt on a rigorous diet and surprised them with her will and desire to be Hwang Jini.
A year later, she made her American debut in the Hollywood indie Make Yourself at Home (formerly titled Fetish), a psychological thriller about a girl who was born to a shaman mother and tries to flee her fate by becoming an immigrant bride in the US.
She made her TV comeback in late 2008 with The World That They Live In (also known as Worlds Within), a series set at a broadcast station in which Song and Hyun Bin played drama PDs who work together and fall in love.
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In 2010, she starred in Camellia, an omnibus film made up of three short films directed by three Asian directors. Each episode is set in the past, prest, and future of the city of Busan. In the film’s final segmt, Love for Sale, Song and Kang Dong-won played former lovers who forget their memories about each other, which later leads them to a fatal destiny.
In early 2011 Song released the photo-book Song Hye-kyo’s Momt, which was shot by top photographers in Atlanta, New York City, Buos Aires, Patagonia, Paris, the Netherlands and Brazil. Proceeds from the sales of the photo book was donated to a childr’s foundation.
Song next played a documtary filmmaker who finds the strgth to forgive the sevte-year-old boy who killed her fiancé but instead of redemption finds only greater tragedy in A Reason to Live (Korean title: Today), which after several delays was released in October 2011.
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In 2011, she became the first Asian actress to sign a contract with Frch global agcy Effigies, paving the way for her possible try into the European market. She released a photo-essay book in 2012 titled It’s Time for Hye-kyo.
Song next played a supporting role in The Grandmaster, Chinese director Wong Kar-wai’s biographical film about Bruce Lee’s kung fu master Ip Man, for which she learned Cantonese and martial arts.
She later admitted there had be a bit of friction and misunderstanding with Wong while filming, but that the difficulties helped her mature.
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Song reunited with the writer and director of Worlds Within in That Winter, the Wind Blows, a 2013 remake of 2002 Japanese drama Ai Nante Irane Yo, Natsu (I Don’t Need Love, Summer). She played a blind heiress in the melodrama, opposite a con man pretding to be her long-lost brother (played by Jo In-sung). That Winter, the Wind Blows placed number one in its time slot during most of its run, and Song and Jo were praised for their performances.
In 2014, Song reunited with Kang Dong-won in My Brilliant Life, E J-yong’s film adaptation of Kim Aeran’s bestselling novel My Palpitating Life about a couple who watched their son suffering from progeria grow prematurely old.
The romantic epic The Crossing was Song’s second Chinese film to be released. It was directed by John Woo (Woo’s longtime frid and producer Terce Chang has be managing Song’s overseas activities since 2008). Previously titled 1949 and Love and Let Love, the long-gestating project had originally be announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008,
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The Crossing is based on the true story of the Taiping steamer collision. It follows six characters’ intertwining love stories in Taiwan and Shanghai during the 1930s. Song played the daughter of a wealthy banker.
Another Chinese film followed in 2015, The Ques, a contemporary romantic comedy about three cosmopolitan wom – an actress, a PR specialist, and a gallery manager – who manipulate frids and put down their emies as they play the game of love. Also starring Joe Ch and Vivian Wu, it was actress Annie Yi’s directorial debut.
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