Shin Goo신구

Shin Goo (신구; born Shin Soon-ki, 신순기, on August 13, 1936) is a South Korean film, theatre and television actor. He began on stage in 1962 in the play Cow and has appeared in many Korean theatre, film and television works.¹ He won the Best Actor prize at the Dong-A Theatre Award three times, at its 3rd, 6th and 8th editions, for roles in I Want to Become Human and Porgy and Bess, in A Streetcar Named Desire and in Luv, and in 2022 he received a Special Award from the Lee Hae-rang Theater Award.¹

On television, DabPop's archive records that he won Best Actor – Television at the Baeksang Arts Awards four times, in 1976, 1980, 1981 and 1994, level with Lee Byung-hun for the most in that category, which puts him among the twelve performers tied for seventh place in DabPop's ranking of the most Baeksang acting wins.²

He has also appeared in reality television. He is one of the four veteran actors in all five seasons of Grandpas Over Flowers, the tvN travel show that began on July 5, 2013, and he appeared in episodes 2 to 9 of the first season of Youn's Kitchen, both made by producer-director Na Young-seok.³⁴⁶ In 2026, with Park Geun-hyung, he starred in the Community Chest of Korea's year-round brand ad, whose 15-second cut had 34.05 million YouTube views on October 24, 2026; the charity said the three cuts together reached 60 million views in five weeks.⁵