In the shortlist of the 60th Baeksang Art Awards in South Korea announced a few days ago, Kim Goeun was shortlisted for Baeksang Film with the film, and Choi Min-sik, another leading actor in the film, also became a strong candidate for this year's Baeksang Actor.
"Broken Tomb" is directed by South Korean director Jang Jae-hyun, who is particularly good at thriller and suspense works, and in 2019 his "Suo Po He" made him nominated for the Best Director at the Blue Dragon Award in South Korea. This time, "Broken Tomb" has become the first fantasy movie with more than 10 million viewers, and it will undoubtedly become one of his personal masterpieces.
In addition to Kim Go-eun, the other cast of this film is equally luxurious: Choi Min-sik, a veteran actor who is known as one of Chungmuro's acting troika, Lee Ji-hui, a young actor who performed well in "Dark Glory", and Yoo Hae-jin, a powerful actor who has won the best supporting actor in Daejong, Qinglong, and Baeksang many times.
However, in addition to a strong cast of actors, it is the good plot that finally makes the audience pay, and the film tells a thriller story about a feng shui master, a sorcerer, and an undertaker who causes bizarre events due to receiving huge sums of money. Jin Gaoyin plays the young shaman Li Hualin in it, and Li Zhihui plays her disciple Bongji, and the two of them in the movie have broken the public's stereotype of shamans, and their daily looks are even more fashionable than many ordinary people, and they are considered to be "double A partners".
In the film, Jin Gaoyin's various aura-filled outfits have also received a lot of praise, with long straight black hair and neutral style, simple and durable, and her demeanor is full of royal sister atmosphere.
In the interview, she talked about the details of the filming of this film, and she said that because she had to complete the filming of the drama "Little Women" in less than a month at that time, and then join the crew of "Broken Tomb", she was actually not left much time to prepare at that time. At that time, whenever she had free time, she would go to the home of a shaman teacher to practice playing gongs, reciting scriptures, learning movements, and listening to the teacher talk about the details of the life of this special group. "The more stories I heard, the more I wanted to learn more about the life of a shaman. I wanted to understand the common sentiments of people who went from ordinary jobs to people who were unwilling to accept God but had to accept Him, and lived a completely different life than before. ”
In addition to this, she also goes to see a lot of exorcism performances to get an up-close look at the details of the movements during the shaman's performance, such as shaking unconsciously, or picking up a tool while checking and feeling something. In the film, she also has a performance of an exorcism ritual in a cemetery, which became a highlight, and many moviegoers said that they were shocked by this clip.
Many people may still have an impression of Jin Gaoyin in "The Lonely and Brilliant God-Ghost", in which she played the role of "ghost bride" Ji Eun-ju. But in fact, her charm is by no means limited to this, seven years have passed, during which she has grown into a powerful actress in the Korean film and television industry, and the type of role she can control is not only romantic idol dramas.
Kim Go-eun was born in Seoul, and when she was 3 years old, due to her father's job change, she came to Beijing with her family to live, and stayed for 10 years until she was 13 years old and entered the first year of junior high school, and then returned to South Korea with her family. Because of this experience, Jin Gaoyin speaks Chinese fluently, and she has also shown her Chinese strength many times in many activities and daily vlogs.
And the reason why she wants to try to enter the entertainment industry is because when she was in the fifth grade of primary school, she watched "With You" directed by Chen Kaige, and since then she has been determined to work in film-related work in the future. So I chose an art high school. However, at first, she wanted to become a film practitioner or screenwriter, but at the suggestion of a teacher at the time, she began to go on stage and began to try to perform on stage, and also discovered that she loved acting, and after graduating from high school, she entered the Korea University of the Arts to study acting.
By chance, in 2012, she got the opportunity to star in the love ethics film "Yinjiao", thus making her official debut, and her partner actor was Park Hae-il, who had just won the titles of Qinglong and Daejong at that time. She played the role of Han Eun-jiao, a 17-year-old girl in the film, for which she won the Best Newcomer Award at 8 film awards ceremonies, including the Blue Dragon Film Awards, the Daejong Award and the Korean Film Critics Association Awards, and was also nominated for the Best Actress Award at the 49th Korean Film Daejong Awards.
Kim Go-eun is also known as one of South Korea's "Chungmuro actors" (Chungmuro is famous for its developed film industry, so the title of "Chungmuro actor" often represents an important status and influence in the Korean film industry.) Although "her debut is the peak", she did not lose herself, but focused on her studies and continued to study and live at her own pace. As for the path of an actor, she seems to have her own plan, constantly trying to challenge various different types of roles.
In 2014, she starred in the thriller "Monster", in which she played the role of "Fushun", a woman with a spiritual age of only 7 years old who lives by selling vegetables, showing her excellent acting skills and strong psychological endurance. In 2015, she brought three different types of films, in April, she co-starred with Kim Hye-so in the gangster action film "Chinatown", in August, she co-starred with Jeon Do-yeon in the costume action film "Chivalrous Girl: Memory of the Knife", and in October, she collaborated with Lee Sun-kyun in the crime suspense film "Runaway Lawyer". The characters include abandoned orphans, chivalrous women who can wield knives, and female prosecutors.
Stills from "Chinatown".
Stills from "Chivalrous Girl: Memory of the Knife".
In addition to movies, she also began to try to shoot some TV drama roles, and most of the roles she played after moving to the small screen were real and cute student characters, co-starring with Park Hae-jin in the romantic comedy "Cheese Trap", she is an enthusiastic female college student Hong Xue, and in "Lonely and Brilliant God-Ghost", she is an ordinary high school student Ji Eun-joo who can see the soul of the dead.
Stills from "The Lonely and Brilliant God-Ghost".
Perhaps her own image is really suitable for playing this kind of fresh and hanging role, both of which received a good response, and "Cheese Trap" helped her win the New Actress Award at the Baeksang Arts Awards that year.
"Ghosts" with well-known actors such as Kong Liu, Li Dongxu, Liu Renna, and Lu Xingcai has made her more well-known internationally. Even in 2024, it has been more than 7 years since the start of this drama, but looking back at this work, its visual beauty, storyline, performance style and other aspects are not lagging behind the current new drama, and many people think that it is the best TV series in the 2010s.
After a period of time, Kim Go-eun focused on TV dramas, and "Yoo Yeol's Music Album" with Ding Hae-in and "The King: Eternal Monarch" with Lee Min Ho both received good ratings.
Stills from "Liu Lie's Music Album".
《The King：永远的君主》剧照
Slowly, she seems to be more comfortable on the small screen, and many of the dramas she has participated in have achieved very good results. In 2021, she co-starred with Ahn Pu-hyun in the romantic comedy "Roumei's Cell Player", in which she played an ordinary office worker Kim Yumi who did not express her feelings well, and won the Best Actress Award at the first South Korean Blue Dragon TV Awards for this drama, becoming the first Blue Dragon TV Queen.
The scene of the first South Korean Blue Dragon TV Awards
In 2022, in the drama "Little Women", which is adapted from the classic novel "Little Women", she led the whole drama with her delicate acting skills, and during the broadcast, the drama ranked first in terms of topicality and real-time trends on major social media in South Korea, and finally set the highest rating of 11.1%.
"Little Girl"
At the same time, she occasionally returns to the big screen, and before "Broken Tomb" she also starred in a historical biopic "Hero", although it didn't make much splash, but her costume style in it is very eye-catching.
Stills from "Heroes".
Not long ago, there was a wave of aesthetics of "light face" on many social platforms, and Jin Gaoyin's appearance is undoubtedly the best representative of "light face", with single eyelids, light makeup, and simple temperament.
There is no idea of becoming beautiful too hard, whether it is attending an event or in private daily life, every time I see her, I always give people a fresh atmosphere like a spring breeze, and many viewers may also find out that the original single-eyelid girl can also be so beautiful because of her appearance.
And although she is not a big beauty in the traditional sense, the styles she can control are quite diverse, and she is the type that becomes more and more attractive the more she looks, and she is called a "second-sight beauty" by many fans. She herself has also brought a variety of hairstyles, such as eyebrow bangs, instant noodles and so on. These very "provocative" hairstyles seem to have become more distinctive on her.
It may be because of her multifaceted fashion expression that she has many brands, among which the most closely cooperated with CHANEL is undoubtedly CHANEL, who has become the brand's global ambassador since 2015.
Last year, he also appeared on the Korean version of VOGUE with the look of all by CHANEL, with a variety of exquisite clothes and gorgeous jewelry, although it is "fully armed", but it still reveals a relaxed atmosphere between its demeanor.
During this period, he not only shot many promotional videos for the brand, but also attended most of the brand's important events in Korea and around the world, and every time he appeared, his appearance was eye-catching.
Let's take a look at her private style of dressing, most of the fashion items she will choose are casual and casual items such as shirts, suits, baseball uniforms, etc., and she will not try too hard to match them.
The baseball cap is probably the most photographed item in her private clothes, and she usually chooses a baseball cap with a matching color according to her outfit of the day, which is easy and casual.
In the eyes of many people, Kim Gaoyin is a very lucky girl, her debut work was a great success, and then she got the opportunity to play with many old actors in the Korean entertainment industry. "When I debuted as the main character, I felt like I was missing a lot. Now that I've started doing this, I think the quickest way to make up for this flaw is to work with good seniors when I'm new. I wanted to learn quickly by seeing first-hand how to perform and how to handle the scene. ”
It is also her mentality of not forgetting her original intention and steadily honing her acting skills step by step that allows her to achieve such outstanding results at the age of her early 30s. In the future, I believe she will also use one work after another to speak and bring us more surprises.