Kim SeongHae, Na Hun and Oh YouJin are in front of winning the tournament. This is 9^th times for Korea to win this tournament.

The tournament has been played from 11^th~13^th in Japan Baduk Association. Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan's rookies attended and had full league to all other countries players. Korea team got back the trophy of the tournament from China this year.

Both countries met after winning 2 wins against Japan and Taiwan. In the beginning, Lee YoungGu 9Dan, Lee JiHun 3Dan, Shin JinSeo 1Dan lost and Korea got behind 1 to 3 against China. But after that, Korea won 4 games all and win the tournament total score 5 to 3. Especially Oh YouJin 1Dan who recently became a pro has won three games all. Han JongJin director of the Smartoro team in the Baduk League said that Oh YouJin will be very strong like Park JiEn and she proved this in this tournament.

Beside, Kim SeongJae 5Dan had 3 wins and Na Hun 2Dan as well.

China came in second having 2 wins 1 loses. Taiwan came in their having 1 wins 2 loses and lastly Japan came in last. The host team Japan this time was behind from other three countries.

Lee YoungGu 9Dan captain of the Korea team, Kim SeongJae 5Dan Lee JiHun 3Dan, Na Hun, Choi Jung 2Dan, Shin MinJun, Shin JinSeo, Oh YouJin 1Dan have attended as representatives of the Korea team this year.