Marriage and Divorce
In May 1995, at the peak of her career, Go married Chung Yong-jin, vice chairman and co-CEO of Shinsegae Group and grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chull. The two first met in New York purely by coincidence when Chung had offered to help Go find her seats at the Winter Garden Theatre because her English was so bad. After the most talked-about wedding in Korea at the time, Go announced her retirement from acting to focus on her new role as a chaebol's wife. They had two children together, a boy and a girl.
But after eight years of marriage, a messy divorce followed in November 2003, during which she temporarily lost custody of her children. Two years after the divorce, Shinsegae passed down a ruling stating that none of its department stores are allowed to display any Go-related material, including all her product endorsements. It is rumored that the ruling is still in effect.
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