Total 253 players attend the preliminary league at first, but there are few players left so far. There were 10 matches of round 4 of preliminary leagues of NongSim Cup on 21th of July.

AS a result of it, Park SeongHwa, Lyu SoHang, Song TaeKon, Kim SeongLeong, Jo HanSeong, Byun Sangil, Hwang JaeYun, Park SeongChel, Kim SooYong and Na Hun got round 4 of preliminary league.

It is very interesting that Kim SeongLeong who is a strategy analyst of National Baduk Team got round 4 of preliminary league. Kim 9Dan won against Kim SeongJae and Park ByeongGue and got round 4. But his opponent is probably Kim JiSuk 9Dan who is rank 2 in Korea, but Kim 9Dan is making miracles time to time.

Through this severe preliminary league, only 4 players got tickets for representative of Korea for NongSim Cup. Another 1 player will be chosen by a sponsor.

As this NongSim Cup has special symbol for Korea, It is very crucial wh