The world Baduk festival, the 14^th KPMC is now over.    

In this competition, 16 countries from Asia, 32 countries from Europe, 12 countries from America, and 1 country from Oceania participated and enjoyed the tournament. 

Regarding the competition’s rules, it was held as Swiss League 6 rounds, time limit 40minutes 30secs 3 times.  The champion was the Chinese player ‘Huh-Sin’, and the Korean Representative Choi-Wonjin get the second place. 

In the interview, Huh-sin said “I am happy to achieve my goal with my best effort, I think I was lucky at the end”. 

Due to this, China succeeded to win the championship 5 years in a row. 

The KPMC has been held 14 years in a row from the first one, and it’s getting full support from the government hoping to propagate Baduk internationally.  Its scale is the biggest out of all world Baduk championships.