Lee YoungGu and Hong SungJi, both players are very close friends but the previous record between them is 10 wins 1 loses for Lee YoungGu. Once, Hong SungJi won against Lee YoungGu in this tournament before and won the tournament in the end.

Lee YoungGu 9Dan won against Hong SungJi 9Dan by resign with black in the 9^th Korea Price Information Cup 3 round on 3th.

Kim YoungSam 9Dan commented that the game was very closed but it was decided by the upper right corners' variation. If Hong 9Dan captured one stone then Lee 9Dan had to defend it for his group. Then the game will be going totally different with the actual game.

But even after that, there were difficult situations for both players but the result was for Lee YoungGu 9Dan.