Park Jung Hwan

Pak Cheong-hwan (박정환, b. 1993) is a Korean, professional 9-dan of the Hanguk Kiwon. On 21 December 2010, Park became the youngest Korean 9-dan professional.

Table of contents Baduk career highlights Rank Promotion Titles Career Statistics Weblinks Videos Pictures

Baduk career highlights

A pupil of the famous Kwon Kap-yong baduk school (which has produced top pros such as Lee Sedol and Choi Cheolhan), he is described in In A Korean Baduk School as a prodigy who aged 12 defeated several professionals including Seo Bong Su 9 dan, and On Sojin. See particularly days 8, 10 and 14.

An Younggil has commented that Park is not as strong in the opening where he is prone to playing slack moves, but he has very good endgame technique.

In June 2012 (till October), Park ranked #1 in the Korean Ranking, and as of July 2012 ranked #1 also in the World Ranking published by cyberoro site. In July 2013, again Park ranked #1 in the Korean Ranking. On the 2024-01-02 rating list, Park is now #6 in the world (with Ke Jie) and #2 in Korea, behind only Shin Jinseo.

Rank Promotion

• 2006: 1-dan
• 2007: 2-dan
• 2008-12-12: 3-dan
• 2009-01-18: 4-dan, for winning the 4th Siptan
• 2009-12-23: 5-dan, for winning the 14th Chunwon
• 2010-01-10: 6-dan, for winning the 5th Siptan
• 2010-01-13: 7-dan, for qualifying for the main event of the 2nd BC Card Cup
• 2010-05: 8-dan
• 2010-12-21: 9-dan, for winning the Asian Games Gold Medal

Titles

• 2007: 3rd Baduk Masters Fighting God (d. Kim Jiseok 2-1).
• 2009-01-18: 4th Siptan (d. Baek Hongsuk 2-0).
• 2009-12-23: 14th Chunwon (d. Kim Jiseok 3-0).
• 2010-01-10: 5th Siptan (d. Yi Ch'ang-ho 2-1).
• 2010-07-13: 14th China Korea Tengen (d. Chen Yaoye 2-1).
• 2010-11-22: 1st 2010 Asian Games Pair Go (with Lee Sula).
• 2011-03-21: 29th KBS Cup (d. Baek Hongsuk 2-0).
• 2011-08-14: 24th Fujitsu Cup (d. Qiu Jun).
• 2011-10-19: 16th GS Caltex Cup (d. Park Yeonghun 3-0).
• 2012-03-05: 13th Maxim Cup (d. Ch'oe Ch'eol-han 2-0).
• 2012-03-18: 30th KBS Cup (d. Baek Hongsuk 2-0).
• 2013-02-04: 31st KBS Cup (d. Yi Ch'ang-ho 2-1).
• 2013-08-28: 9th Korean Prices Information Cup (d. Lee Yeongkyu 2-1).
• 2014-01-14: 18th Chunwon (d. Ch'oe Ch'eol-han 2-0).
• 2015-02-02: 19th LG Cup (d. Kim Jiseok)
• 2016-01-14: 34th KBS Cup (d. Lee Sedol 2-1)
• 2017-01-01: 3rd MLily Cup (d. Park Yeonghun 3-0)
• 2017-03-29: 36th KBS Cup (d. Kim Jiseok 2-0)
• 2017: 1st World Go Championship (d. Mi Yuting)
• 2017-05-22: 18th Maxim Cup (d. Yun Junsang 2-1)
• 2018-02-11: 1st Crown Haitai Cup (d. Shin Jinseo 2-1)
• 2018: 2nd World Go Championship (d. Iyama Yuta)
• 2019: 3rd World Go Championship (d. Ke Jie)
• 2019-07-23: 12th Chunlan Cup (d. Park Yeonghun 2-0)
• 2021-11-03: 26th Samsung Cup (d. Shin Jinseo 2-1)

Career Statistics

Park Jung Hwan’s professional record is 1544 games, 1125 wins, 418 losses, for a 72.91% win rate.

Weblinks

• English Wikipedia
• Korean Wikipedia
• Korean Baduk profile
• Go4Go
• Go Ratings and Games
• He has played on Tygem as idontca1.

Videos

• Post-game comments after a victorius game against Kim Seunggu in the 1st round of 2023 Myeongin.

Pictures

park junghwan feb2023 (Image credit: Foxwq.com)

park junghwan mlily 2023 (Image credit: Foxwq.com)

Park Jung Hwan with 10-year-old admirer, girl prodigy Nakamura Sumire, 2019 (Image credit: Hong In-ki, hankookilbo.com)