Plasma-sprayed 8YSZ (zirconia stabilized with 8 wt% yttria)/NiCoCrAlYTa thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) were laser-glazed using a continuous-wave CO 2 laser. Open pores within the coating surface were eliminated and an external densified layer was generated by laser-glazing. The hot corrosion resistances of the plasma-sprayed and laser-glazed coatings were investigated. The two specimens were exposed for the same period of 100 h at 900 8C to a salt mixture of vanadium pentoxide (V 2 O 5 ) and sodium sulfate (Na 2 SO 4 ). Serious crack and spallation occurred in the as-sprayed coating, while the as-glazed coating exhibited good hot corrosion behavior and consequently achieved a prolonged lifetime. The results showed that the as-sprayed 8YSZ coating achieved remarkably improved hot corrosion resistance by laser-glazing. Changes in the coatings were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to observe the microstructure and X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique to analyze the phase composition. XRD results showed that the reaction between yttria (Y 2 O 3 ) and V 2 O 5 produced yttrium vanadate (YVO 4 ), leaching Y 2 O 3 from YSZ and causing the progressive destabilization transformation from the tetragonal (t) to monoclinic (m) phase. The external dense layer produced by laser-glazing restrained the penetration of the molten salt, to a certain extent, into the coating, which led to a relatively low m-ZrO 2 content in the coating after the hot corrosion test. Additionally, the segmented cracks in the coating surface induced by laser-glazing were helpful to the improvement of strain tolerance of the coating. The two factors were important contributions to the significant enhancement of hot corrosion resistance of the as-glazed YSZ coating.