[우리문화신문=이한영 기자] Shin Min-jun 9th team won the first major world championship by winning the 9th team in the final of the LG Cup final 3rd. On the 4th, at the final of the 25th LG Cup Chosun Ilbo’s previous finals held online at the Korean origin and the Chinese origin on the 4th, Shin Min-joon 9th Dan wins over 302 times against China’s Kerze 9th Dan, with a total score of 2-1. I won the reversal.
It has been six years and two months since Kim Ji-seok won 9th Dan in the 2014 Samsung Fire & Marine World Baduk Masters Final by defeating Tang Weixin 9th in the major world competition Korea-China final. Shin Min-joon, 9th Dan, who won the LG Cup championship cup, has become the 15th major world championship title winner in Korea.
This is the fifth time Shin Min-jun won the 1st Gifted Enrollment Contest with Shin Jin-seo in July 2012. In 2016 and 2018, he won the Mezionbae Rookie of the Year, and in January 2019, he reached the top of the KBS Go King. Shin Min-joon, who was known internationally by winning the Glovis Cup International New Competition in April 2019, in which knights under the age of 20 participate, became the champion of important world championships after 8 years and 7 months after joining the LG Cup.
The 3rd final was followed by a hundred victories in which all the knights who held the bag won. In the final 1st place held on the 1st, Kerze 9th took over a hundred thousand in 184, but Shin Min-jun 9th in 198th consecutively succeeded in making a 1-1 tie. Shin Min-joon, who hoped to catch a bag in the final country, started off happily while holding the bag in the turn.
In an interview right after the championship, Shin Min-jun 9th Dan said, “I was much more nervous today than in the finals 1 and 2, but I’m so happy that I was the first major world championship,” he said. “Today, Go was difficult to judge in the beginning, but it seems that it has never been unfavorable after a close match. . He said, “I was convinced of the victory when I solved the loss by disregarding the fatness of Kerze’s 9th dan while playing a losing battle on the left.” Next, Shin 9dan said, “I won the LG Cup by putting it well beyond my skills, but I am still feeling a lot lacking. I will try to win the world championship again.”
In an interview immediately after the final 3rd stage of the LG Cup, Kerze 9dan said, “It seems that this is the first time that we have beaten the 1st country and defeated it. The more we put the two, the better our opponent, Shin Min-jun, 9th. He handed a virtuoso.
With Shin Min-joon’s 9th championship, Korea won the 11th LG Cup championship. The final confrontation between the 9th Dan of Kerze, which was ranked 1st in China’s 8 major world championships, and Minjun Shin, 9th ranked 4th in the domestic ranking, who advanced to the first final of the major world championships, was predicted by a fight between David and Goliath. This is the first time that the 9th Dan Kerze has been defeated by a Korean knight in an important world competition.
The new ninth team, which fell behind Kerze ninth team by 2 wins and 4 losses, including 4 consecutive losses, shortened their opponents to 4 wins and 5 losses. Shin Min-jun 9th team, who went directly to the finals with an assignment, won 9th Dan, Wang Yuanjun of Taiwan in the final 32nd round, 6th Dinghao of China in the 16th round, Taehyun Lee 7th in the 8th round, and 9th Dan Jung-hwan Park, runner-up in the first half of the tournament in the quarterfinals. He defeated him and reached the final.
Kerze 9th, who challenged the LG Cup’s first championship, advanced to the final by successively winning Park Gunho in 4th in the 32nd round, Shin Jinseo 9 in the previous competition in the 16th, Won Sungjin 9th in the 8th, and Byeon Sangil 9th in the 4th. , Shin Min-joon was defeated in 9th place and ended in runner-up.
The championship prize of the 25th LG Cup Chosun Ilbo, hosted by Chosun Ilbo and sponsored by LG Corp., is 300 million won and the runner-up prize is 100 million won. Meanwhile, Shin Min-jun’s 9th Dan’s championship awards ceremony will be held on the 5th at 11 am at the Joy Hall on the 1st floor of the main building of the Chosun Ilbo.