[FETV=김윤섭 기자] Dongseo Foods announced on the 6th that Kim Ji-suk won the victory in the final of the’Maxim Coffee Cup Best Match’, the nation’s most prestigious Go tournament sponsored by Dongseo Foods.
Kim Ji-seok, 9th team, defeated the first-time winner Lee Ji-hyun, 9th team, and won the final victory after a fierce fight that repeated reversal in the second country of the 22nd Maxim Coffee Cup winning finals held on the 5th. Kim Ji-seok, 9th Dan, who has participated in the Maxim Coffee Cup finals every year since the 15th in 2014, won the championship for the first time after the eighth challenge.
Winner Kim Ji-suk 9th Dan will be awarded 50 million won in prize money along with the winning trophy, and Lee Ji-hyun 9th Dan, who took second place, will receive a trophy and 20 million won in prize money.
Kim Ji-seok 9dan expressed his feelings, “I was feeling burdened ahead of the final with Lee Ji-hyun, 9th Dan, the winner of the first half, but I am happy to get a good result of winning the Maxim Coffee Cup finals by focusing until the end.”
Sang-in Sang-in, Managing Director of Dongseo Foods, said, “I congratulate Ji-Seok Kim for winning the 9th Dan’s championship, and I would like to applaud Ji-Hyun Lee for creating an exciting final game. “Thank you to all the 32 participating players.”
The’Maxim Coffee Cup’ is the best mechanism in Korea to determine the top by only participating in 9 teams of Baduk professional players, and is a representative social contribution activity of Dongseo Foods to broaden the base of the Korean Go culture. Only top-ranked Go knights are eligible to participate through the’KANU Points’ system, which scores the results of various international and domestic competitions.