Goh Doo-shim

Acting

Goh Doo-shim

Born

1951-05-22 (75)

Place of birth

Jeju, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Go Doo-shim (고두심) is an acclaimed South Korean actress born on May 22, 1951, in Jeju City, South Korea. She made her professional acting debut in 1972 and went on to become one of the most celebrated performers in Korean television and film history. Go holds a record seven Grand Prizes (Daesang) across South Korea's major television networks for her powerful dramatic performances. Throughout her multi-decade career, she has starred in iconic television series such as More Beautiful Than a Flower (2004), All About My Mom (2015), My Mister (2018), When the Camellia Blooms (2019), Our Blues (2022), and Twinkling Watermelon (2023). Her notable film credits include My Mother, the Mermaid (2004),…

Known for

Home Alone poster
7.5

It can be a badge of honor to be “single.” “I Live Alone” is a documentary-style South Korean reality series that follows the members of a self-formed club called Rainbow, which is comprised of celebrities who are single and live alone.

Home Alone

2013

Law of the Jungle poster
5.5

Law of the Jungle is a hybrid reality show combining elements of drama and documentary. The show is hosted by comedian Kim Byung Man, and each episode invites various celebrities from the various field. So far, many of idol stars and famous actors have appeared on the show. The show introduces viewers to exotic locations around the world where celebrities must work together in order to complete missions and survive. The cast celebrities travel to less habituated, natural places to survive on their own and experience life with local tribes and people. In each location, the guests are tasked to hunt and prepare their meals and also create shelter for the tribe. They sometimes confronted by many difficult challenges. Where will the tribe visit? And how will they survive on their own? Stay tuned to check out!

Law of the Jungle

2011

Master In The House poster
6.5

Almost everyone has a question regarding life and the goal of life. In order to find the answer, the four young men with full of curiosity regarding their lives, Lee Seung Gi, Lee Sang Yun, Yuk Seong Jae, and Yang Se Hyeong, head to find their master to learn things and get a correct answer. They find the master and spend a day in the master’s place to learn things that they didn’t know, and wish to know. Whom will they get to meet? And what will they learn throughout the stay?

Master In The House

2017

When the Camellia Blooms poster
8.2

Dongbaek is a single mother. When a potential new love enters her life, she finds ways to defy the social stigmas surrounding her.

When the Camellia Blooms

2019

Story of a Mermaid poster
5.1

An estranged daughter vows to take revenge on her father, who abandoned her and her mother.

Story of a Mermaid

2002

Twinkling Watermelon poster
8.8

A CODA (child of deaf adult) student born with a gift for music crash lands at an unfamiliar place after time traveling through a suspicious music shop. There, he forms the band Watermelon Sugar with other mysterious youths.

Twinkling Watermelon

2023

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

EXIT poster
7.6

At his mother's 70th birthday party, Yong-nam runs into Eui-joo, who rejected him in college. When the city is engulfed in toxic gas from a terrorist attack, the two must find a way to escape using all the techniques they learned in their college rock climbing club.

EXIT

2019

Start-Up poster
6.9

Two boys are becoming real adults during a turbulent time as they experience a world that doesn't go their way.

Start-Up

2019

The Preparation poster
7.0

In-gyu has intellectual disability. His mother, Ae-soon, takes care of him, nagging him all the time. One day, she is diagnosed with terminal cancer and prepares for her son's independence.

The Preparation

2017

Grand Prix poster
6.3

Grand Prix" covers the world of horse racing, centered around the romance between a male horse jockey and a female horse jockey. Seo Joo-Hee (Kim Tae-Hee) is an ambitious equestrian who loses her beloved horse in a racing accident and also injures her arm. Devastated she quits the sport and travels to Jeju Island. On Jeju Island, Seo Joo-Hee meets fellow equestrian Woo-Seok (Yang Dong-Kun), a former winner of the Japan Cup who is also experienced a similar slump as Seo Joo-Hee. With Woo-Seok's help, Seo Joo-Hee becomes inspired to compete for the Grand Prix Chamionship.

Grand Prix

2010

Old Goodbye poster
6.0

Soo Hyuk, a former boxer, gets a call telling him he just received a house. It’s his ex-wife Chae Hee’s house. There, Soo Hyuk finds some old Polaroid photos in the secret attic and has a time slip to the past. Chae Hee waiting for her death, and Soo Hyuk struggling to save her. The breathtaking time travel begins. Once passionately in love with her, So Hyuk travels through time to meether again at different ages and discover why he originally fell for her. He meets her when she is 10, 17 and 22. But traveling through time to revisit their romantic past is dangerous and he may risk his life to discover what he has lost.

Old Goodbye

2014

2000s · 7 titles

Plum Blossom poster
6.1

High school senior, Jayo is seduced into his first sexual experience by classmate Hara, who eventually kills herself when he ignores her. Since then, he immerses himself in loveless sex until he meets cheerful nurse, Namok. Meanwhile, his pal Seuin has developed a crush on his teacher, which is socially taboo.

Plum Blossom

2000

My Mother the Mermaid poster
6.7

Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.

My Mother the Mermaid

2004

Good Morning President poster
6.2

Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy and with great determination, and a female President Han Kyuong-ja. They are distressed over the choices they have to make between politics and ethics. The affliction of Kim Jung-ho who wins the lottery, the agony of Cha Ji-wook who donates an organ, and the troubles of Han Kyuong-ja who faces the crisis of divorce.

Good Morning President

2009

Family Ties poster
6.3

A story of three families living different but similar lives. They always fight and quarrel, but love is the common denominator for their relationship, making people think about what families are for.

Family Ties

2006

Thomas Ahn Joong-Keun poster
5.7

Nine a.m. October 26, 1909, six gun shots ring out at Harbin station in China, followed by a cry in Russian saying "long live Korea".Ahn Jung-geun one of the leaders of the independence movement had shot Ito Hirobumi, the first Japanese resident general in Korea. He hears while being questioned that Hirobumi had died, and he thanks God. He confesses that he had shot Hirobumi without ever having seen his face, which surprises the investigators. And they wonder about the 7th bullet that Jung-geun had left unfired.

Thomas Ahn Joong-Keun

2004

Long & Winding Road poster
7.0

Because of her motion sickness, a 68-year-old mother decides to embark on a four-day walking trip to attend her youngest daughter's wedding.

Long & Winding Road

2005

Saving My Hubby poster
5.8

Geum-sun, a former volleyball star, is married to a clumsy husband and has a baby daughter. She struggles to adjust to her boring life until kidnappers call claiming they have her husband and demand money for booze.

Saving My Hubby

2002

1970s · 1 titles

Series credits

Home Alone poster
7.5

It can be a badge of honor to be “single.” “I Live Alone” is a documentary-style South Korean reality series that follows the members of a self-formed club called Rainbow, which is comprised of celebrities who are single and live alone.

Home Alone

2013

Law of the Jungle poster
5.5

Law of the Jungle is a hybrid reality show combining elements of drama and documentary. The show is hosted by comedian Kim Byung Man, and each episode invites various celebrities from the various field. So far, many of idol stars and famous actors have appeared on the show. The show introduces viewers to exotic locations around the world where celebrities must work together in order to complete missions and survive. The cast celebrities travel to less habituated, natural places to survive on their own and experience life with local tribes and people. In each location, the guests are tasked to hunt and prepare their meals and also create shelter for the tribe. They sometimes confronted by many difficult challenges. Where will the tribe visit? And how will they survive on their own? Stay tuned to check out!

Law of the Jungle

2011

Master In The House poster
6.5

Almost everyone has a question regarding life and the goal of life. In order to find the answer, the four young men with full of curiosity regarding their lives, Lee Seung Gi, Lee Sang Yun, Yuk Seong Jae, and Yang Se Hyeong, head to find their master to learn things and get a correct answer. They find the master and spend a day in the master’s place to learn things that they didn’t know, and wish to know. Whom will they get to meet? And what will they learn throughout the stay?

Master In The House

2017

When the Camellia Blooms poster
8.2

Dongbaek is a single mother. When a potential new love enters her life, she finds ways to defy the social stigmas surrounding her.

When the Camellia Blooms

2019

Story of a Mermaid poster
5.1

An estranged daughter vows to take revenge on her father, who abandoned her and her mother.

Story of a Mermaid

2002

Twinkling Watermelon poster
8.8

A CODA (child of deaf adult) student born with a gift for music crash lands at an unfamiliar place after time traveling through a suspicious music shop. There, he forms the band Watermelon Sugar with other mysterious youths.

Twinkling Watermelon

2023

목욕탕집 남자들 poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

목욕탕집 남자들

1995

Our Blues poster
8.5

Romance is sweet and bitter — and life riddled with ups and downs — in multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju island.

Our Blues

2022

My Mister poster
8.5

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.

My Mister

2018

Sold Out on You poster
8.4

A work-obsessed cosmetics CEO and a top home-shopping host struggling with insomnia cross paths, and through an unexpected romance, begin to heal the emptiness in their lives.

Sold Out on You

2026

Island poster
8.1

Evil took its first step to destroy the world. On the mysterious island of Jeju Island, the gateway to this, "Van," a mix of human and monster, "Won Mi-ho," the one in the center of fate, and "Johan," the one who exercises God’s power, come together. A strange, yet captivating, action-packed exorcism fantasy in which they fight evil, share the fate of saving the world, and defy their own...

Island

2022

Law of Marriage poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Law of Marriage

2001

The Atypical Family poster
8.3

Once blessed with unique superpowers, a family loses their abilities due to modern day problems — until a mysterious woman changes everything.

The Atypical Family

2024

On the Border poster
8.0

There are many countries that are at borders with others, standing next to one another yet still so far apart. Join us as we observe and learn about the history, culture, art, international relations and global issues of the two countries.

On the Border

2018

Curtain Call poster
5.9

A drama about an elderly woman from North Korea who doesn’t have much time left to live and a theatre actor who acts as her grandson in order to fulfill her final wish.

Curtain Call

2022

Mother's Garden poster
2.0

A family drama about a woman who gets to live at her biological mother’s boarding house with her stepmother after her father dies and his business goes down. This struggling family overcomes life challenges together through love and compassion to reach a happy ending. (Source: MBC)

Mother's Garden

2014

Dear My Friends poster
7.5

Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves through love and family.

Dear My Friends

2016

All About My Mom poster
5.0

A story about the tiring but sad love and hatred between a mother and her daughters. Lee Jin-ae has a love and hate relationship with her mother, Im San-ok. She dreams of becoming independent from her family and especially from her mother. Jin-ae falls in love with Kang Hoon-jae and marries to him. Meanwhile, what awaits for Jin-ae is her new mother-in-law, Hwang Young-sun. While experiencing difficult times with her mother-in-law, Jin-ae begins to understand her mother San-ok for the first time.

All About My Mom

2015

You Are The Best poster
6.2

The drama 'You Are The Best' transfers the message of consolation, hope and healing to those of us suffering from this competitive society. This is a humanistic drama that makes us realize that happiness cannot be felt just from materialistic or external values but from simple but truthful love, and a society that is full of people who share.

You Are The Best

2013

Chunja's Happy Events poster
NR

Chunja's Happy Events, also called Happy Events at Chunja's or Chunja's Special Day, was a Korean TV drama that aired from May 19, 2008 to November 13, 2008 on MBC.

Chunja's Happy Events

2008

High Society poster
7.2

A wealthy woman tries to escape her family stress by living as an “average” person, but will her search for normalcy end in happiness or heartbreak?

High Society

2015

Our Gap Soon poster
7.8

A family drama that illustrates marriage and married life in modern society in a positive light.

Our Gap Soon

2016

Twinkle Twinkle poster
5.7

This drama tells the success story of Han Jung Won, a workaholic careerwoman who is determined to make her own way in life without the help of her family, which has garnered considerable wealth from their publishing company. Her life is turned upside down due to someone's mistake, and she faces numerous setbacks on the road to recovery.

Twinkle Twinkle

2011

Son and Daughter poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Son and Daughter

1992

One Warm Word poster
5.3

The drama explores the reality and complexities of married life. Eun-jin and Jae-hak, who are married to other people, find themselves attracted to each other. Their marriages become in danger of unraveling, as their affair disrupts the lives of family and friends around them.

One Warm Word

2013

Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter poster
7.0

A wingless fairy awaits the reincarnation of her former husband to try to locate her lost wings and return to heaven. Sun Ok Nam is a fairy who came down to Earth to take a bath during the Joseon Dynasty. A woodcutter steals her clothes, and she is unable to return to heaven. She decides to marry the woodcutter and has two children with him. But before she can find out where he hid her clothes, the woodcutter dies in an accident. Almost 700 years later, Ok Nam works as a barista in a café, awaiting the reincarnation of her woodcutter husband. To most people who see her, Ok Nam looks like an old woman, but some people can see her for her youthful beauty. When two men, Jung Ji Hyun and Kim Geum, come into the café one day, Ok Nam is convinced that one of them is her reincarnated husband. Can Ok Nam finally find her lost clothes and return to heaven?

Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter

2018

The Snow Queen poster
7.9

A boxer who was previously a genius, and a rich girl who has a serious illness. Despite appearing not to have any connection, they are similar. Nothing can melt their heart of ice. What is the sunlight that can melt their frozen heart? If the answer is love, is it too cliché? Tae Woong`s love melted the heart of the ice princess, Bo Ra. Although this winter will be very cold and scary, winter is not the end of the seasons, but the beginning of the hope for a greater love.

The Snow Queen

2006

The One and Only poster
6.8

A contract killer gets entangled with a murder case and three terminally ill women who have each decided to end the life of one person before they die.

The One and Only

2021

The Ume Tree in the Midst of the Snow poster
NR

The third episode of 500 Years of Joseon Dynasty deals with the period of history spanning from the reign of King Munjong, the first son of Sejong, to the chaos of Yeonsangun's rule.

The Ume Tree in the Midst of the Snow

1984

The Great Merchant poster
6.3

This drama is based on a real life figure Kim Man-deuk who was living in Jeju Island. She goes through a lot of changes in her life; at first she becomes a Gisaeng but turned herself into a merchant, and then becomes one of the biggest philanthropists in Joseon Dynasty. Man-deuk gets adopted by Granny at a young age. With great efforts, she becomes a Gisaeng who has outstanding talents in various areas. However, she gives up everything and runs away with her lover Jeong Hong-soo. She gets caught and sends to the transitory wards for epidemics for one year. When she came out from the wards, she starts to take care of the Gisaengs who are suffering from illness. Man-deuk goes into a business and restores the business ethics in Jeju. Meanwhile, Moon-sun, who used to be a friend of Man-deuk, feels a sense of inferiority and competes with Man-deuk’s business.

The Great Merchant

2010

More Beautiful Than a Flower poster
8.5

This series revolves around bright hardworking loving mother Go Doo Shim as Lee Young Ja who does her best to insure that her family has a happy life. Her husband Joo Hyun as Kim Do Chil unfortunately ruins the atmosphere of the happy family by having an affair with a woman who comes to carry his child. The eldest daughter Bae Jung Ok as Mi Oak suggests to her mother that she get a divorce, while the youngest daughter Han Go Eun as Mi Soo finds attraction to the handsome looks of an investor who harbors a deep dark secret. Will this family be torn apart or can it be salvaged?

More Beautiful Than a Flower

2004

If Tomorrow Comes poster
6.0

"If Tomorrow Comes" is about the love and conflict between a mother and daughter. Seo Woo takes on the role of kind-hearted college girl Yoon Eun Chae, who thinks respecting your parents brings you happiness. The mother role will be played by Go Doo Sim.

If Tomorrow Comes

2011

The Virtual Bride poster
7.1

In an attempt to regain her popularity, former idol star In Young goes on a TV Show where she clashes with her on-screen mother-in-law, Yang Choon Ja. However, the tension is increasingly worse off-set when In Young starts dating Choon Ja's real son!

The Virtual Bride

2015

Immortal Classic poster
4.5

A culinary battle erupts when two families with legendary kimchee recipes clash, risking generations of secret cooking traditions for ultimate gastronomic supremacy.

Immortal Classic

2012

Legend poster
NR

Shinhwa is an SBS drama special that aired from September 9, 2001, to November 26, 2001.

Legend

2001

Please Marry Me poster
3.0

Jung-im closes down the shop early in preparation for her father-in-law’s 60th birthday. Yet, his sons and daughters are nowhere to be found, and so as her husband Tae-ho. At this hour Tae-ho is with his co-worker Suh-young, whispering loves under the curtain. Nowadays, Tae-ho has no arousal around his wife, and sees no sparks in their conversations. Suh-young, on the other hand, is a light to his dull life. As secrets can never stay sealed forever, during his sleep Tae-ho unconsciously blurts out his love towards Suh-young. After such bitter incident, Jung-im is dragged to I-dol concerts by her friend Aeh-ran, and unexpectedly ends up in a fight. Soon, the press releases news about her under the title by, “the revolting vigilant fan in her thirties!” Then Jung-im’s life falls apart, as Tae-ho divorces her. Yet what she had not realized is that her life could also turn towards “good” when given just the right chance. As entertainment agency’s head Hyun-wook decides to turn Jung-im into a successful Cinderella, her life changes! Then one day, as Tae-ho turns on his radio he hears a voice, a familiar one… yes, it was his ex-wife Jung-im’s. What would happen next?

Please Marry Me

2010

Marry Him If You Dare poster
2.4

Set in the world of television broadcasting, Na Mi-rae travels back in time to prevent her 32-year-old self from marrying news anchor Kim Shin, thus sending her past self down a different path and enabling her to pursue the things she really wanted in life.

Marry Him If You Dare

2013

Should My Tears Show poster
NR

A drama that depicts the conflict and reconciliation between a mother and daughter in a love-hate relationship with a detailed touch.

Should My Tears Show

1999

HD 역사스페셜 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

HD 역사스페셜

2005

Countryside Chronicles poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Countryside Chronicles

1980