Shin Min-joon, first major world championship… LG’s reverse win against Kerze

Shin Min-jun 9th beat Kerze 9th in the LG Cup final (provided by Korean origin) © News 1

Shin Min-jun 9th team won the first major world championship by winning the 9th team of China’s Kerze in the final country of the 3rd LG Cup final held on the 4th.

Shin Min-joon 9th Dan won the 25th LG Cup Chosun Ilbo’s previous match online in Korea and China. .

It was only 6 years and 2 months after Kim Ji-suk beat 9-dan Tang Wei-Sing in the 2014 Samsung Fire & Marine World Baduk Masters Finals and won the 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.

Shin Min-joon 9dan said, “I was much more nervous today than in the finals of the 1st and 2nd nations, but I’m so happy because I won the first major world championship.” During the battle, I was sure of victory when I resolved the defeat without noticing the fatness of the 9th Dan.”

He then revealed the goal of “I won the LG Cup by putting it well above my skills, but I am still feeling a lot lacking. I will try to win the world championship again.”

With Shin Min-jun’s 9th victory, Korea won the 11th LG Cup Championship.

The final confrontation between China’s No. 1 Kurze 9 Dan, who won the 8 major world championships and 9 Dan Shin Min-jun, the 4th place in the domestic ranking, who advanced to the first final of the Major World Championships, was predicted by a fight between David and Goliath, but in the end, Shin Min-joon ninth Dan won. This is the first time that the 9th Dan Kerze has been defeated by a Korean knight in a major world competition.

The championship prize for the 25th LG Cup Chosun Ilbo, hosted by the Chosun Ilbo and sponsored by LG, 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.

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