Gong Yoo finished his mandatory service of Korean Armed Forces for two years. He was in charge of the production of the theatrical adaptation for Gong Ji-Yong Novel called The Crucible and he gave it as the gift to his senior to congratulate them for the promotion he got after the enlistment. The movie was released under a title Silenced and the film sparked the public outrage when it was released on 2011. It led to the opening of the investigation for which the incidents in the novel were based and the public demanded the legislative to make the reform from the National Assembly and it was meant to revise the sex crimes that were targeting the minors or disabled and it was called the Dogani Bill as the title of the Korean Title of the film and it was passed successful in 2011.

In the year 2013, he went back to the big screen after having two year gap without being in the film and he was on the Suspect. He was the elite North Korean spy and he defected because he was betrayed by his own country. He was appointed in the same year for the United Nations Children’s fund of Korea during the celebration of the 24th Convention on the Rights of the Child. After the appointment, he had to visit different places where he was to make people aware of the problem of the people who are in underdeveloped countries. His biography can be found from different websites and fans can follow him on the social media. He has a net worth of over 2 million dollars and he has been able to make all such money through many movies and tv shows that he had featured in. His height is 1.82 m and her weight is 74kg. By now, he is not yet married and he does not have any wife.

In 2014, he was named to be the ambassador for National Tax Services together with the actress Ha Ji-Won. For this, they had to model for the promotional posters and to take part in the street campaigns.