Baek Yeo-jeong

Baek Yeo-jeong or Yeo-jung (Hangul: 李奈炫) is a Korean female professional 1 dan.

She was born on 6 March 2007 in Anseong, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. She is the youngest of three children of Baek Kyung-hyun and Kim Eun-ha. She has an older brother and sister.

Her Baduk instructors were Han Jong-jin, Cho Han-seung, Han Sang-hoon 9p; Kim Se-dong 8p, and Kim Min-ho 5p. The player she most admires is Choi Jeong 9p.

As an amateur in 2023, Baek almost single-handedly won 17th Jiji Auction Cup Amateur Championship, a 7-per-side win-and-continue event between a “Promising Girls’ Team” vs a “Promising Boys’ Team”. Her 5-game winning streak eliminated the remaining boys and contributed most of the Girls’ Team’s winning score of 7–4.

That year, she also won the Chunhyang Cup.

Lee became a professional by passing the 61st Women’s Entrance Exam in January 2024, aged 16, along with the two sisters Lee Jung-eun (16) and Lee Na-hyun (14).

Links

• Korean Baduk article
• Go Ratings and Games
• Go4Go