Jin Goo

I honestly think Jin Goo is one of those actors who makes everyone around him look better just by showing up, and he proved it definitively in Bong Joon-ho's Mother back in 2009 — that performance earned him Best Supporting Actor at both the Grand Bell Awards and the Blue Dragon Film Awards, which is about as strong a double stamp of approval as Korean cinema can give. Then he pivoted to the small screen and held his own opposite Song Joong-ki in Descendants of the Sun, a drama so massive it basically broke streaming records across Asia. What I respect is the range: he can do brooding thriller one year and glossy military romance the next, and neither feels like a stretch. Born in 1980, educated at Sahmyook University, quietly grinding away — Jin Goo is the kind of career actor who lets the work do the talking.

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Name (English)

Jin Goo

Name (Japanese)

チン・グ

Reading

ちん・ぐ

Born

July 20, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

University

Sahmyook University

• Official sitehttp://www.bhent.co.kr/jingoo/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/actor_jingoo/
• Xhttps://x.com/actorjin9
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin%20Goo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q625620

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.