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Pierce Conran

Rising actress Go Min-si is set to reprise her role as Lee Eun-yu in Netflix’s third season of Sweet Home this July.
Go’s popularity has exploded over the last couple of years thanks to her varied roles on both the big and small screens.
While known as an actress, Go in fact made her debut as a director with the 2016 short Parallel Novel. The film, in which she also appeared, picked up the grand prize at the SNS 3 Minute Film Festival.
But her true passion has always been acting.

Why we love her
A native of Daejeon in central South Korea, Go, who prefers to spell her name in English as “Go” instead of “Ko” to highlight the fact that she is a go-getter, is a particularly determined performer who dreamed of being an actress from a young age but had a hard time getting opportunities.
Two years after graduating from high school she left a career in wedding planning against her parents’ wishes and moved to Seoul, where she worked odd jobs and took acting classes. She did not have an acting degree and endured rejection after rejection.

Finally, after appearing in the third season of the web series 72 Seconds and getting a part in a music video for K-pop idol Thunder’s song “Sign”, she was signed by Mystic Story (formerly Mystic Entertainment) and her career took off.
Go is a versatile performer who, despite becoming a star thanks to her small-screen work, remains very active in cinema, her first passion.
While many big names carefully craft their personas, appearing in a limited range of roles, Go has been unafraid to experiment with formats and performance styles, and tends to play both lead roles and supporting parts.

This year she appeared in the web series S24 Hours. The series featured Go in four very different cinematic shorts directed by Han Jun-hee (Coin Locker Girl, D.P.). It showed her acting range.
Go is known for her collaborations with fellow rising star Lee Do-hyun. The pair appeared as siblings in Sweet Home before portraying lovers in the historical romance drama Youth of May. They then shared the screen in the short web series Reincarnation Love.
The star-making roles
After a small part in the film version of Cheese in the Trap, Go was cast in the action-horror The Witch: Part 1 – The Subversion as the best friend of Kim Da-mi’s lead character. Go’s bubbly turn drew the attention of the industry.

A year later, and in the same month in which she appeared in the independence-fighter epic The Battle: Roar to Victory, Go turned heads with a major supporting role in her Netflix debut, the fantasy romance Love Alarm.
In it, Go gave a zesty performance as the greedy and selfish cousin of Kim So-hyun’s lead character, whose advances to her future Sweet Home co-star Song Kang are rebuffed.
She reprised her role in season two of Love Alarm, in which her character gradually becomes more empathetic.

The iconic parts
Go picked up a best new actress prize at the SBS Drama Awards for her part in Secret Boutique. But it was her next major role, In Netflix’s runaway monster hit Sweet Home, that cemented her stardom at home and abroad.
Go plays Lee Eun-yu, the adoptive sister of Lee Do-hyun’s character and a ballerina who is forced to give up dancing following an injury, shortly before a monster apocalypse traps them in their dilapidated apartment building.
Go was able to reprise her role in the second season, which was not as well received as the first.

She next appeared, again alongside Lee Do-hyun, in Youth of May, a period romance set against the backdrop of the 1980 Gwangju Massacre.
Though not hugely successful upon its launch, the series gained a loyal following and got good ratings.
In the summer of 2023, Go showed her comic chops in Ryoo Seung-wan’s 1970s-set crime movie Smugglers.
Go steals the show as the young owner of an old-school countryside coffee shop, who helps a motley crew of haenyeo (female seafood divers) plan a heist.

The role landed her the best new actress award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards.
The unheralded performances
Not many people realise Go appears in Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave. She has a small part as a shaman, which highlights her openness to taking minor parts in interesting projects.
Tomorrow’s turns
Following Sweet Home season 3, which will be released on July 19, Go has another Netflix original lined up – thriller series The Frog, in which she appears alongside Kim Yun-seok, Yoon Gye-sang and Lee Jung-eun. It is scheduled for release later in 2024.


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Korean actress Go Min-si rose to global fame with her role in Sweet Home on Netflix after playing a wide range of roles. She will be back on Netflix in season 3 of the series on July 19, and will be in another series for the streaming platform, The Frog, also in 2024. Photo: Instagram/@gominsi

Go as Lee Eun-yu in a still from Sweet Home season 1 (2020). Her part in the Netflix series has made her an international star. Photo: Netflix

Go in a still from Sweet Home season 3. Photo: Netflix

Lee Do-hyun and Go in a still from Sweet Home season 3. Photo: Netflix

Go in a still from The Witch: Part 1 – The Subversion (2018).

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Go (centre) in a still from Smugglers (2023).

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Lee Je-hoon in a still from Chief Detective 1958. Photo: MBC TV

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Lee Je-hoon in a still from Chief Detective 1958.

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Lee Je-hoon in a still from Bleak Night (2010).

Lee Je-hoon (left) and Bae Suzy in a still from Architecture 101 (2012).

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Lee Je-hoon in a still from Phantom Detective (2016).

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Lee Jin-wook as Pyeon Sang-wook, who helps Cha Hyun-su break free from custody, in a still from “Sweet Home” season 2. Photo: Kim Jeong-won/Netflix

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Go Min-si as Lee Eun-yu, who faces trigger-happy soldiers at a refugee camp she’s taken to, in a still from “Sweet Home” season 2. Photo: Kim Jeong-won/Netflix

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Go Min-si in a still from Love Alarm season two. Photo: Netflix.

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Tang Wei (right) and Park Hae-il in a still from Decision to Leave, directed by Park Chan-wook, which is playing in the main competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Tang Wei (left) and Park Hae-il in a still from Decision to Leave.

Park Hae-il (left) and Tang Wei in a still from Decision to Leave.

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