/Photo provided = Korean origin9 Dan Kim In, a huge Korean go player, died on the 4th due to a chronic illness. 78 years old.
The deceased had a dignified attitude to the country and a profound ethos, and he is also famous for buying a lot of rice and alcohol from poor colleagues with prize money and money. In Kim In, the 9th team did not stubbornly participate in TV Baduk, thinking that Baduk, hosted by a broadcasting company, which adheres to the value of the way in Baduk and focuses on the process rather than the results, is contrary to the nature of Baduk. Baduk juniors called Kim In 9 Dan as “Unchanging Cheongsan (靑山)”.
He suffered from gastric cancer for a long time, and metastasized to liver cancer, which is said to have rapidly deteriorated in recent years.
According to the Korean origin, Kim Ku-dan, born on the beach in Gangjin, Jeollanam-do in 1943, went to Tokyo alone by night train holding a board when he was 13 years old. After studying with the elders Kim Bong-seon and probably Gosu Lee Hak-jin, he joined as a professional in 1958 at the age of 15.
At the age of 19, in the 6th Noodles Battle in 1962, he challenged Nam-cheol Cho, a pioneer of modern Korean Go, but lost with 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses. On March 9, four days after the noodle show was over, he went on his way to study in Japan. With an introduction letter from Nam-cheol Cho, he became a student at 9-dan Minoru Kitani. When he was an instructor at Kitani Dojo, he also taught the 9th Dan Jochi Hoon.
In November 1963, the deceased returned to Japan after organizing his 20-month life in Japan even under the pressure of his teacher Kitani. The Korean origin said, “It is because the strict and disciplined Kitani Dojo life did not fit the free-spirited club In Kim.” Kim In 9 Dan won the first throne in 1966 and won 7 consecutive victories and 8 times in total. After winning the 6th defeat in 1966, he achieved a record of winning 30 times and runners-up 22 times in total, including 7 consecutive victories.
Kim, 23, won the noodle title with a 3-1 victory over Nam-cheol Cho, who was considered impregnable in the 10th noodle game in 1966. It was the first generational change in the history of Korean modern Baduk. Afterwards, the deceased achieved 6 consecutive defeats in the noodle game until the 15th in 1971, and became known as’Kim Noodles’ in the Baduk world.
The 40 consecutive wins written in 1968 are the record of the most unbroken winning streaks in Korea until now. He was promoted to 9th in 1983.
From 1971 to 1975, he served as the 5th-8th knights president. He has been a director of Korea Origin since 2004, and he did not leave the site of the Go tournament even while fighting the disease. When international Go tournaments were held in China and other countries, they always accompanied the Korean team as the head of the team.
For 63 years, he was active as a professional knight of the Korean origin, leaving a record of 860 wins, 5 draws and 703 losses in 1,568 matches. The win rate of 88.1% in 1967 (37 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses) and 87.72% in 1967 (50 wins and 7 losses) remain in the 3rd and 4th place in the annual highest win rates.
In his hometown of Gangjin,’Kim In Noodles’ has been held since 2007. Inaugurated as a national children’s Go tournament, Kim In Noodles became an international senior baduk tournament in 2008. It is known that the deceased, who visited the 13th wanted Kim In-guk in October 2019, was very sorry when the contest was canceled in the aftermath of a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) last year.
Bereaved is his wife, Im Ok-gyu, and one son. At 10 am on the 6th, Jangji is at Xi’an Memorial Park in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do. Vinso was prepared in special room 2 of the Shinchon funeral hall at Yonsei University.
/ Reporter Park Dong-hui [email protected]