Go Soo

Go Soo
Born	(1978-10-04) October 4, 1978 Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1998–present
Agent	BH Entertainment
Spouse(s)	Kim Hye-yeon (m. 2012)
Korean name
Hangul	고수
Hanja	高洙
Revised Romanization	Go Su
McCune–Reischauer	Ko Su

Go Soo (born October 4, 1978) is a South Korean actor. He has appeared in television series such as Piano, Green Rose and Will It Snow For Christmas?, as well as the films Some, White Night, Haunters, The Front Line, and Love 911.

Biography

1998-2005: Debut and breakout fame

Go Soo first appeared in a soft drink TV commercial in which he waits for his girlfriend at curfew, and in 1998, he appeared as an extra in the music video "Last Promise" by the band Position. He made his television debut in 1999 through the MBC sitcoms My Funky Family and Jump. Go drew critical praise for his performance in the drama Piano in 2001, with one review describing him as an "actor with precision." Piano was his first TV series produced by SBS; he signed an exclusivity contract with the broadcast network, and thereafter all of his dramas have been SBS-produced.

Go made his big screen debut as a drug crime officer in 2004's Some, in which he also performed his own stunts. He was later awarded Best New Actor at the Grand Bell Awards. In 2005, he starred in the revenge drama Green Rose, which was shot on location in China and Korea. He played a simple man who falls in love with a rich woman and gets accused of a crime he did not commit. In the 2005 romantic comedy Marrying a Millionaire, Go played a delivery man who is asked by a TV producer to act like a rich bachelor to attract several women on a televised reality dating show.

2006-2008: Military

Go began his two-year mandatory military service on March 2, 2006 and he was assigned as a Civil Service Personnel in Gangnam District, Seoul. He was discharged on April 25, 2008, and received recognition for being an outstanding Public Interest Service Personnel.

For his first post-army project, Go surprised fans by choosing a stage play. Invited to join the "Best Play Series" by veteran actor Jo Jae-hyun (Jo was his costar in Piano, and the senior colleague he "most respects"), Go made his theater debut as the lead actor in The Return of President Eom, which ran from May 23 to August 3, 2008.^[1]

He also completed his very first photo diary, with the concept "24 Hours with Go Soo." Shot by actor-singer Ryu Shi-won, a photography hobbyist who used Go as a muse, it was published as a commemorative for Go's Japan fanmeeting on November 1, 2008. It was also released as a DVD with approximately 100 shots. Ryu, who had been active in Japan for many years as a singer, extended his support to friend and junior colleague Go when the latter decided to expand his career into the Japanese market.

2009-current: Comeback

In 2009, he starred in the dark mystery film White Night, based on the Japanese novel Byakuyakō by Keigo Higashino. Go said he was "completely absorbed by the intriguing storyline."^[2]

For his television comeback, Go was cast in the melodrama Will It Snow For Christmas?, a tale of rekindled childhood love penned by renowned TV writer Lee Kyung-hee.^[3] He described his character as "hurt by love and tries to overcome that pain."^[4][5]

His next film Haunters, in which he played the only man immune to a psychic's supernatural powers, was a box office hit in 2010.^[6][7]

Go said early in his career he didn't feel confident enough to make movies, but plucked up the courage and became increasingly attracted to the medium in recent years, especially the quick and intense production schedules. In 2011 he played a soldier in the Korean War-set The Front Line,^[8] then a grieving firefighter in the 2012 romance drama Love 911.^[9]

In 2013 he collaborated with the makers of The Chaser for Empire of Gold, a TV series about the power struggle within a rich family living through Korea's turbulent economy of the 1990s.^[10][11]

Later that year, he starred in Way Back Home, playing the devastated husband of a woman wrongfully accused of drug smuggling. Go said the reason he chose the film was because he wanted to work with acclaimed actress Jeon Do-yeon, and that through his character he "was able to tackle the challenge of internal and external change."^[12]

Personal life

Go began dating Kim Hye-yeon, an art student eleven years his junior, shortly after meeting her in 2008. The couple married on February 17, 2012 at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul.^[13][14][15] Their first child, a son, was born in January 2013.^[16][17]

Filmography

Television drama

Film

Music video

Theater

• The Return of President Eom (돌아온 엄사장, 2008)

Discography

• I Will Be Happy (poetry readings, 2006)^[18]

Advertisements

• Sony Korea
• Beksul
• Narangd Cider
• Merrell
• Bacchus
• Orion Shower Gum
• Nescafé
• Sunny 10
• Popeyes
• Haitai Beverage
• N20
• Hite Beer
• Magix
• Uno Cosmetics
• Litmus
• 옹골진
• Basic House
• Maypole
• Hana Financial Group

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Go Soo at BH Entertainment (Korean)
• Go Soo Fan Club at Daum (Korean)
• Go Soo Japanese website (Japanese)
• Go Soo at HanCinema
• Go Soo at the Internet Movie Database