Personal Info
Birth date
1936-08-13 (88 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Seoul, South Korea
Also known as
신구
Shin Gu
Shin Koo
申久
Shin Goo
Sin Gu
Shin Gu
Biography
Shin Gu (신구), born Shin Soon-gi (신순기), is a South Korean actor.
Filmography
You Quiz On The Block
8.333
Overview:
Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.Grandpas Over Flowers
9.2
Overview:
Grandpas Over Flowers is a South Korean travel-reality show that airs on tvN. It stars four veteran actors in their seventies— Lee Soon-jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun-hyung and Baek Il-seob — as they go on a backpacking tour to overseas travel destinations alongside Lee Seo-jin, an actor in his forties. Grandpas Over Flowers became a cultural phenomenon, receiving high ratings for a Korean cable program and spawning several spin-offs and remakes.My Mister
8.551
Overview:
In a world that is less than kind, a young woman and a middle-aged man develop a sense of kinship as they find warmth and comfort in one another.The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop
7
Overview:
Depicts the trials and tribulations of four men who work at Laurel Tree Tailor Shop.Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village
7.4
Overview:
Celebrities are chosen to live for three days a week in a rural setting. They are required to use their own means to find food for and prepare three meals a day.Youn's Kitchen
8.9
Overview:
Follow the cast in their journey to Gili Trawangan, a tropical island in Indonesia, where they open a pop-up restaurant for 10 days. Viewers can see the heartwarming struggles the actors go through to start their business, enjoy the gorgeous island backdrop, and laugh at the humorous situations that arise throughout the show.The Clinic for Married Couples: Love and War
NYR
Overview:
The Clinic for Married Couples: Love and War, aka Husbands and Wives: Love or War, is a South Korean TV program.The Sound of Your Heart
7.9
Overview:
Comedy following Cho Seok's ridiculous but hilarious adventures with his girlfriend-turned-wife Ae Bong, their dogs, older brother Jo Joon, and parents. Based on the popular webtoon series of the same name.A Hundred Year Legacy
5.5
Overview:
A warm-hearted family drama about a three-generation family and their noodle factory that they operate in the outskirts of Seoul.Money's Warfare
7.2
Overview:
War of Money is a 2007 South Korean television drama series adaptation of Park In-kwon's comic of the same name. Starring Park Shin-yang and Park Jin-hee, it aired on SBS from May 16 to July 19, 2007 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. Originally scheduled for 16 episodes, due to its popularity it was extended to 20, but only Park Shin-yang starred in the four-episode "bonus round."God's Gift - 14 Days
7.8
Overview:
Kim Soo Hyun experiences the unfathomable when her daughter is kidnapped and murdered. Discovering a miraculous ability to go back in time exactly two weeks before the event, Soo Hyun races against the clock to unravel the plot and save her daughter. But when a private investigator sheds new light on the crime, Soo Hyun uncovers a secret far more treacherous than she could have ever imagined.Ruler of Your Own World
8.7
Overview:
Ruler of Your Own World is an MBC Korean drama series. It was written by In Jung-ok and directed by Park Sung-soo.I'm Sorry, I Love You
8
Overview:
Cha Moo Hyuk is a man who was adopted by an Australian family but treated cruelly and then abandoned at a young age. By chance, he meets Song Eun Chae, a fashion coordinator dedicated to her employer, singer Choi Yune. Their meeting will have implications for the rest of Cha Moo Hyuk's life as a devastating turn of events leads him to delve into his past, and ultimately find happiness.School
NYR
Overview:
School is a drama series that deals with realistic issues South Korean teenagers faced in high school in the late 1990's.Thank You
8.286
Overview:
Gi Seo is a renowned doctor at the top of his profession, but he’s racked with guilt because he wasn’t able to save his girlfriend, Ji Min, who was HIV-positive. He escapes to work on a small island and fulfill Ji Min’s dying wish: to find a little girl named Bom who she accidentally infected with HIV while she was a medical intern. Bom lives on the island with her single mom Young Shin and grandfather, who has dementia. Gi Seo grows increasingly fond of the family and finds a reason to live again, discovering beautiful miracles on the island.Eighteen, Twenty-Nine
7.6
Overview:
Yu Hye Chan is 29 years old. Hye Chan is married to Kang Bong Man who is her old classmate in high school whom she despised and hated but later fell for. The story opens with her decision to get a divorce. She has a car accident on the way to the courthouse. When she wakes up at the hospital, she has no memory of her life past age 18. Her husband tries to support her since she is basically helpless now. As she recovers her memory, she also starts to recover a relationship with her husband and begins to fall for him all over again.Ms. Kim’s Million Dollar Quest
6
Overview:
On her wedding day, Kim Eun Jae is left standing at the altar by her groom, Yoo Young Hoon, for wealthy Suh Woo Kyung. Her wedding photographer, Park Moo Yeol, is a rich playboy who helps Eun Jae avoid embarrassment by pretending to be her husband. Soon after Moo Yeol's family goes bankrupt. The family home will be sold if he can't come up with money quick. Eun Jae meanwhile is convinced that if she becomes wealthy, Young Hoon will come back to her. Eun Jae and Moo Yeol decide to join forces. They move in together and invest in moneymaking schemes one after the other. Making money, unfortunately, isn't as easy as they had hoped. As outside forces (and Woo Kyung) line up against them, the two begin to realize that though they may be unlucky in money, they are very lucky in love.Kairos
6.2
Overview:
Kim Seo-Jin is a man who is driven only to achieve success in his life. Thanks to his efforts, he is the youngest executive at his company. His life is perfect, with his beautiful violinist wife Kang Hyun-Chae and a daughter. His wonderful life comes to a halt when his young daughter is kidnapped. He falls deep into despair. To change the past, when his daughter was kidnapped, he contacts Han Ae-Ri approximately one month in the past. Han Ae-Ri has busy days with her studies and working a part-time job to make enough money to pay for her sick mother's operation. One day, her mother suddenly goes missing. Han Ae-Ri falls into despair, when Kim Seo-Jin from the future contacts her.Wife
NYR
Overview:
Han Sang Jin is married to Kim Na Young and they have a 7 year old daughter, Min Joo. They live with his mom, younger brother, younger sister, and sister's daughter. One day, Sang Jin vanishes while on a business trip. He remains missing for over 7 years until one day he is spotted by his college friend, Nam Hyun Pil, at a ski resort. Min Joo, now 15, sees him as well but she just thinks he looks like her dad. Hyun Pil begins digging and finds out that the man is called Min Young Tae. Young Tae is married to Hyun Ja and they have a 3 year old son, Ung Pyo. Hyun Ja doesn't care about that all she knows is that he's her husband and the father of her child. Hyun Pil makes the hard decision to tell the truth to Na Young, to whom he's just proposed. The question is now which man will he live as, Han Sang Jin or Min Young Tae, since each man has a different wife.Heartstrings
6.8
Overview:
Lee Gyu Won is the daughter of one of the top three maestros of pansori and is also a gayageum protégé herself. Following her grandfather’s wishes for her to study the gayageum, she enrolls as a major of gugak, or traditional Korean music. Lee Shin is unfriendly, yet a clever student in the Applied Music Department who also is the famed vocalist and talented guitarist of the handsome band named The Stupid. With charming looks equal to those of a handsome character in a romance comic and a cold, taciturn personality, he thinks gugak is boring and belittles it. As the vocalist Lee Shin and Gayageum Protégé Lee Gyu Won passionately confront each other to champion their respective music, they soon fall in love.Dear My Friends
7.6
Overview:
Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves through love and family.Family's Honor
7
Overview:
Family's Honor is a South Korean television series starring Yoon Jung-hee, Park Si-hoo, Jeon No-min, Kim Sung-min, Shin Da-eun, Jeon Hye-jin, and Maya. It aired on SBS from October 11, 2008 to April 19, 2009 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:55 for 54 episodes. With its strong focus on family traditions and values, the series revolves around the tangled and less than perfect lives of the illustrious Ha family. It centers on the filial granddaughter of the Ha household, played by Yoon Jung-hee. Writer Jung Ji-woo said, "I wanted to write a story about a very backward woman. I wanted to see how a woman who cannot speak up for herself and likes to sew could survive in modern society." Director Park Young-soo added that, "I wanted to revive the significance of our dying traditions. I worked hard to capture that."Hi-Five
7.7
Overview:
In the dead of night, a body donated for organ transplants mysteriously disintegrates into ashes. Soon after, five recipients, given a heart, corneas, lungs, liver, and kidneys, begin to develop supernatural powers. A teenage girl gains immense strength, a hipster manipulates electromagnetic waves, a novelist summons powerful gusts, a factory manager can heal others, and a woman discovers a strange, still-unidentified ability. Together, they form a reluctant but heroic team known as "HI-FIVE." But they aren’t the only ones transformed. A cult leader who received the donor's pancreas gains the terrifying power to drain life energy and sets his sights on stealing the abilities of HI-FIVE to achieve godlike domination.Amnok River Flows
4
Overview:
This drama portrays the turbulent life of Lee Mi Reuk, a Korean expatriate who fought for the freedom of his country while studying medicine in Tokyo, during the period when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule. He fled to China and eventually settled in Germany.After the Rain
3.3
Overview:
This is a drama about Bong Gil who is forty, single and dying to move to Seoul and away from his 90-year-old father who’s been making Pyeongyang Naengmyun for the past 70, lonely years.The Empire Of Law
4.6
Overview:
Depicts the vulgar scandals of Korea’s nobles of the robe (whose rank came from holding judicial or administrative posts) who dream of hereditary succession. Han Hye Ryul is the chief of the special division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. Han Hye Ryul is from a family of judicial workers who has had wealth and power for three generations. She is an ambitious figure who is not satisfied with her current position and aims to become a prosecutor general or someone higher up the ladder.Dance of Breaking Sky
NYR
Overview:
Drama about Sejo's ousting and murder of King Danjong. Was cancelled early as the story too closely resembled contemporary politics at the time.Kimchi Cheese Smile
5
Overview:
Kimchi Cheese Smile (Korean: 김치 치즈 스마일; RR: Kimchi Chiseu Seumail) is a South Korean sitcom revolving around the life of a kimchi-like (having a popular & conservative thought) family headed by Shin Goo who are to become in-laws with Sunwoo Eun-sook's cheese-like (rich & stylish class) family. With contrasting classes and family values, the sitcom follows these two families through various events of their lives.Acting
2025Hi-Five as Seo Young-chun
2023Nattering with Nah (1 Episode) as Self
2023Winter Story as Unknown
2022The Empire Of Law (16 Episodes) as Ham Min-heon
2020Kairos (32 Episodes) as Yoo Seo-Il
2019Forbidden Dream as Minister
2018After the Rain (2 Episodes) as Dal-jae
2018Ambergris (4 Episodes) as 역무원
2018You Quiz On The Block (1 Episode) as Self
2018My Mister (16 Episodes) as CEO Jang
2018Be-Bop-A-Lula as Soon-ho
2017Daddy You, Daughter Me as Grandfather
2017Youn's Kitchen (9 Episodes) as Self
2017Bluebeard as Sung-geun's Father
2016The Sound of Your Heart (1 Episode) as Judge
2016The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop (54 Episodes) as Lee Man-Sool
2016Dear My Friends (16 Episodes) as Kim Suk-gyun
2015Shoot Me in the Heart as Mountain Teacher
2014The Con Artists as Director Oh
2014Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village (1 Episode) as Self
2014The Language of Love as Grandfather
2014God's Gift - 14 Days (16 Episodes) as Choo Byeong-woo
2013Grandpas Over Flowers (48 Episodes) as Self
2013A Hundred Year Legacy (50 Episodes) as Uhm Pyung-dal
2011Heartstrings (15 Episodes) as Lee Dong-jin
2009Heaven's Postman as Choi Geun-bae
2008Amnok River Flows (3 Episodes) as Mi Reuk's father
2008Family's Honor (54 Episodes) as Ha Man-gi
2008Modern Boy as Hae-myung's Father
2008Cherry Tomato as Park Gu
2007Going by the Book as Do-man's Father
2007Kimchi Cheese Smile (121 Episodes) as Shin Goo
2007Money's Warfare (16 Episodes) as 독고철
2007Thank You (16 Episodes) as Lee Byung-gook
2006Someday (16 Episodes) as Oh Bong-Soo
2006Righteous Ties as Chi-sung's Father
2005Murder, Take One as Chief Yoon
2005A Bold Family as Kim Joong-Yeob
2005Eighteen, Twenty-Nine (15 Episodes) as Kang Chi-soo
2004I'm Sorry, I Love You (16 Episodes) as Min Hyun-Suk
2004Ms. Kim’s Million Dollar Quest (14 Episodes) as Kim Hoe-taek
2003Wife (52 Episodes) as Unknown
2002YMCA Baseball Team as Ho-chang's Father
2002Ruler of Your Own World (20 Episodes) as 고중섭
2002No Blood No Tears as Kim Geum-bok
20022009: Lost Memories as Takahashi
2000웬만해선 그들을 막을 수 없다 (293 Episodes) as 노구
2000The Foul King as Dae-ho's Father
1999The Clinic for Married Couples: Love and War (479 Episodes) as Judge
1999A Great Chinese Restaurant as CEO Han
1999School (16 Episodes) as Shin Moon-Soo
1998Christmas in August as Jung-won's Father
19971818 as Unknown
1992Our Twisted Hero as Mr. Choi
1991Blood and Fire as 정보국장
1991The Royal Road (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1989My Friend, Je-Je as Unknown
1982The Whereabouts of Eve as Unknown
1982Applause as Unknown
1980Dance of Breaking Sky (12 Episodes) as Kim Jong Seo
1976Blue Days as Unknown
1976Rocking Horse And A Girl as Unknown
1976Never Never Forget Me as Yeong-su's Older Brother
1975Love In The Rain as Unknown
1975You Become a Star, Too as Detective Nam
1974Transgression as Unknown
1974Ecstasy as Unknown
Creator
2018Ambergris ... Creator