Shin Yeong-Jun plays a crucial part in Dong-Eun’s suffering as he wields his powers and bribes from the bourgeoisie to clean up after their dirty deeds and help conceal their sick games from society.
The Glory follows the decades-long struggles of a woman who was subjected to unimaginable torture from her high school bullies, and years later, sets off to execute her grand revenge plan against them.
Over all the years of torment and the years that followed the torment, and ultimately during the years that Dong-Eun takes revenge for her torment, she meets resistance and obstacles borne out of privilege and power and those who act as lapdogs of the wealthy to access said prerogatives.
Corrupt
Shin Yeong-Jun is one such example of a civil servant who instead serves the elites to climb up the social and professional ladder to success. In the process, he ends up immunizing the criminals and damning the victims further to their misery and unjust lives.
Shin Yeong-Jun works for Park Yeon-Jin’s mother and has been working for her for decades. They’re also implied to have a bit of history together, as the two were also schoolmates when they were young.
Later on, Shin would go on to clean up after every dirty work or misdeed that was done by Yeong-Ae or her family. In exchange for his work, he’d be rewarded generously by her, which would also help his career bloom and eventually he’d achieve many things a civil servant like him can’t hope to achieve.
He’d go on to buy property overseas and also a motel for his sister. At the end of The Glory, Yeong-Ae confronts him about forgetting all these perks and benefits that he’s been able to enjoy because of her when he tries to bail and flee.
Cleaner
Shin Yeong-Jun’s misdeeds that become the focus of The Glory begin with him cleaning up after Yeong-Ae’s daughter, Park Yeon-Jin. When she kills Yoon So-Hee, she calls her mother, who then calls her buddy Yeong-Jun to make sure that the crime scene is deprived of all the evidence that can incriminate her daughter.
He does so, but certain pieces of evidence elude him, like the lighter that Yeon-Jin used to set fire to So-Hee. He also fails to spot Yeon-Jin’s nametag that’s recovered by Dong-Eun years later.
She even anonymously mails it to the police but unfortunately, it ends up in Yeong-Jun’s hands, who seizes it and hands it over to Yeong-Ae.
Years later, Yeon-Jin kills again, this time the victim is Myeong-O, and Chief Shin Yeong-Jun’s cleaning duty this time entails burying him. However, having grown weary and careful of the family, he decides to keep Myeong-O’s body in a vacuum bag at a funeral home, as his retirement security.
Coward
Shin Yeong-Jun tries to do the usual job he’s been doing for Yeong-Ae for years, but this time he faces, without a clue, two most formidable opponents — Moon Dong-Eun and Joo Yeo-Jeong.
With the help of Hyeon-Nam, they manage to keep tabs on Yeong-Jun and what he’s doing with Myeong-O’s body. They get ahead of him every step of the way and eventually, he stands at risk of getting caught up in the fire that’s coming Yeong-Ae’s way.
He fails to keep Myeong-O’s body in one place and had also failed to clean up at the scene of Yeon-Jin’s first murder. He plans to flee the country before it all comes crashing down but Yeonh-Ae tries to stop him, by making him a witness in the manslaughter she makes her murder of Seok-Jae look like.
She warns him that if she’s going down, she’s taking him down with her as well. He tries still, to flee the situation. However, Ha Do-Yeong tips off the henchmen who have been working under Shin, that their boss is trying to sell his sister’s motel, and since they’d already smelt the greenery inside his safe, they kill him for his money.
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