Tong Yang Securities Cup

The Tong Yang Securities Cup was a Korean professional Go tournament sponsored by Tong Yang Securities (now Yuanta Securities Korea), one of the country's major brokerage firms. The financial sector's involvement in Go sponsorship mirrored similar patterns in Japan, where securities firms have long been major supporters. The tournament added to Korea's domestic circuit during a period when the country was rapidly overtaking Japan as the world's strongest Go nation.

Country Korea Type Open Format Knockout Cycle 1y Komi 6.5 Editions 11

1998

Champion: Lee Changho · Runner-up: Yu Ch'ang-hyeok

final 1 1 game

Apr 20 Lee Changho B+R Yu Ch'ang-hyeok

Final 4 games

Apr 20 Lee Changho B+R Yu Ch'ang-hyeok Apr 22 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok B+0.5 Lee Changho May 11 Lee Changho B+R Yu Ch'ang-hyeok May 13 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok W+0.5 Lee Changho

Semi-final 2 games

Mar 29 Lee Changho B+5.5 Yu Bin Mar 29 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok B+1.5 Ryu Shikun

Quarter-final 3 games

Mar 27 Ryu Shikun B+5.5 Yi Seong-chae Mar 27 Cho Chikun W+R Yu Ch'ang-hyeok Mar 27 Yu Bin B+5.5 Michael Redmond

Round 2 8 games

Jan 23 Yu Bin B+7.5 Zhou Junxun Jan 23 Cho Hunhyun W+12.5 Rin Kaiho Jan 23 Yi Seong-chae B+1.5 Ma Xiaochun Jan 23 Zhou Heyang W+0.5 Cho Chikun Jan 23 Michael Redmond B+4.5 Kim Yeong-hwan Jan 23 Ryu Shikun B+R Kim Su-chang Jan 23 Kobayashi Satoru W+R Yu Ch'ang-hyeok Jan 23 Kataoka Satoshi W+1.5 Lee Changho

Round 1 8 games

Jan 21 Yi Seong-chae B+1.5 Kato Masao Jan 21 Zhou Junxun B+0.5 An Cho-yeong Jan 21 Seo Pong-su W+0.5 Kataoka Satoshi Jan 21 Ch'oe Myeong-hun W+R Zhou Heyang Jan 21 Michael Redmond B+R Chen Guoxing Jan 21 Kim Su-chang B+R Komatsu Hideki Jan 21 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok B+R Chang Hao Jan 21 Rin Kaiho B+R Yang Chae-ho