Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.
Screenwriter Eun Sook's main goal for this K-drama is to let everyone know that bullying victims are never to be blamed for the pain they've gone through. They only want a genuine apology from their offenders. On why she chose the title as such: "[The Glory is about] recovering their dignity, honor, and glory that was lost to them the moment they fell as a victim to violence was genuine recovery for them," she said in the press interview.
Cha Joo Young revealed in an interview that she wasn't really nude in certain scenes. She wore coverings over her breasts while filming the scenes and then fake larger breasts were added by CG during post production. Joo Young said they had to do that because her character of Choi Hye Jung had a breast augmentation procedure in the story, so they needed to make her breasts look much bigger. She admitted this because sites posting the nude scene kept stating it was actually her breasts.
Cha Joo Young said her father was so upset after seeing her nude scenes, he left the house.
In one scene, actress Cha Joo Young, who plays materialistic flight attendant Choi Hye Jeong, one of the bullies, is seen having a heated argument with queen bully Park Yeon Jin (played by Lim Ji Yeon). During the confrontation, Joo Young suddenly removes her shirt, exposing her breasts. Reportedly, some viewers were taken aback by what they considered a gratuitous scene, calling it "unnecessary" and "sudden." Viewers had a similar reaction to her nudity in a bathtub scene. Joo Young revealed during the drama's press conference that the topless scenes were a last minute addition by the director.