별 (더 글로리)

정준일 has always occupied a particular space in Korean indie folk — gentle, precise, unfashionably earnest — and this song for The Glory distills those qualities into something almost painfully tender. The guitar work is fingerpicked and unhurried, small melodic figures recurring like a phrase someone keeps returning to in conversation. His voice is warm and slightly rough at the edges, carrying the quality of a person talking quietly in a dark room rather than performing for a crowd. "별" maps the night sky as emotional metaphor: distant light, the distance between people, illumination that arrives too late to matter. In the context of the drama — a story of systematic cruelty and the long project of surviving it — the song functions as a kind of moral counterweight, evidence that softness persists even in the darkest narrative architecture. Heard apart from that context, it reads as a meditation on unreachable people, the ones who remain luminous in memory precisely because of their distance. This is a song for walking alone at night when the weather has turned cold and the city feels very large and very quiet at the same time.