Dongseo Food’s ’22nd Maxim Coffee Cup winning strongest match’ Kim Ji-seok won 9th dan
Reporter Hwang Sang-wook [email protected]
Input: 2021-04-06 16:17:59Revision: 2021-04-06 16:17:59Posted: 2021-04-06 16:28:39
In the final (pictured) of’Maxim Coffee Cup Competition’, the nation’s most prestigious Go tournament sponsored by Dongsuh Foods, 9 Dan Kim Ji-seok won the prize and became the winner.
According to Dongseo Foods on the 6th, Kim Ji-Seok 9th Dan defeated the first-time winner Lee Ji-Hyun 9th Dan and won the final victory after a fierce fight that repeated a reversal in the 22nd Maxim Coffee Cup Final Final 2 held on the 5th. . Kim Ji-seok, 9th Dan, who has participated in the Maxim Coffee Cup competition every year since the 15th in 2014, won the championship for the first time after the eighth challenge. Winner Kim Ji-seok 9th team will be awarded 50 million won in prize money along with the championship trophy, and Lee Ji-hyun, who took second place, will receive a trophy and 20 million won in prize money.
Kim Ji-seok 9dan said, “There was a burden 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.”
“I congratulate Ji-Seok Kim’s victory in the 9th Dan’s competition, and I applaud Ji-Hyun Lee for making an exciting final game,” said Choi Sang-in, vice president of Dongseo Foods. “Thank you to all the 32 participating players.”
The best match for Maxim Coffee Cup is the best mechanism in Korea in which only 9 players of Baduk pro players participate to determine the top, and is a representative social contribution activity of Dongseo Foods to broaden the base of the Korean Baduk 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.
Reporter Hwang Sang-wook [email protected]