Pak Yeong-hun

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Pak Yeong-hun (박영훈)

Pak Yeong-hun (박영훈, 朴永訓, Park Younghun, b. 1 April 1985 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean, professional 9-dan. He is one Korea's top professionals. He was a pupil of Ch'oe Kyu-pyeong. In 2013, Pak reached his 1,000th career game and 700th win.^[2] His hobbies include tennis and playing Tetris. His nickname is Little Prince.^[3]

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Style

Enjoys peaceful and simple games where he can utilize his very strong endgame, counting and positional judgment. He's good at finding flexible moves, sabaki, and tidying up positions, but is relatively weaker at fighting than other top players, such as Gu Li and Yi Se-tol.

In 2011, An Younggil said:

His smile is so pure like a baby and his mind is beautiful, so whenever I talk to him I feel good. He is a real Baduk lover and he studies Go more than anybody else as I mentioned above. When he was an insei, his teacher commanded his students to play 300 game records a week, and all students thought it’s impossible except him. He said it’s easy because he can do 50 games each day, and he can even have a day off.

I’ve never heard any bad word from him, and most of Baduk fans including pros like him because of that.^[3]

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Rank Promotion

1999: 1-dan, promoted through amateur route rather than insei route.
2000: 2-dan
2001: 3-dan
2003: 4-dan
2004: 5-dan, for qualifying wins.
2004: 6-dan, for runner-up of the 8th Samsung Cup
2004: 9-dan, for winning the 17th Fujitsu Cup.^[1]

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Titles

2001: 6th Chunwon (d. Yun Seong-hyeon)
2002: 6th China-Korea Tengen (d. Huang Yizhong)
2004: 17th Fujitsu Cup (d. Yoda Norimoto)
2004: 1st Zhonghuan Cup (d. O Rissei)
2004: 15th BC Card (Korean New Stars) (d. Kim Dong Hee)
2005: 16th Kiseong (d. Ch'oe Ch'eolhan)
2005: 1st Korean Prices Information Cup (d. Yi Ch'ang-ho)
2005: 1st Yeongnam Ilbo Cup (d. Cho Han-seung)
2006: 17th Kiseong (d. An Cho-yeong)
2007: 18th Kiseong (d. Ch'oe Ch'eolhan)
2007: 20th Fujitsu Cup (d. Yi Ch'ang-ho)
2007: 12th GS Caltex Cup (d. Yi Ch'ang-ho)
2008: 13th GS Caltex Cup (d. Weon SeongChin)
2008: 9th Maxim Cup (d. Mok Jinseok)
2010: 38th Myungin (d. Weon SeongChin?)
2011: 12th Maxim Cup (d. Yi Ch'ang-ho)
2011: 2nd China-Korea-Japan Meijin
2011: 39th Myungin (d. Baek Hongsuk)
2013: 17th Chunwon (d. Ch'oe Ch'eolhan)

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Team Titles

2005: Korean Baduk League, member of Team Holy Construction (individual score: 7-0).
2009: Korean Baduk League, member of Team Yeongnam Ilbo (individual score 10-5).

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Runners-up

2003: 8th Samsung Cup (l. Cho Chikun)
2003: 3rd Osram Cup (l. Song T'ae-kon)
2004: 9th GS Caltex Cup (l. Yi Ch'ang-ho)
2005: 9th China-Korea New Star (l. Gu Li)
2017: 11th Chunlan Cup (l. Tan Xiao)

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Career Statistics^[2]

Year	Total	Win	Loss	Win %
2000	62	49	13	79.0%
2001	71	50	21	70.4%
2002	79	59	20	74.7%
2003	79	53	26	67.1%
2004	55	37	18	67.3%
2005	90	61	29	67.8%
2006	85	56	29	65.9%
2007	88	62	26	70.5%
2008	68	42	26	61.8%
2009	67	43	24	64.2%
2010	86	60	26	69.8%
2011	71	46	25	64.8%
2012	88	59	29	67.0%
2013-08-29	66	48	18	72.7%
Total	1055	725	330	68.7%

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English Commentaries

Date	Opponent	Resource
2002-06-01	O Meien	Go World Iss. 95
2003-12-08	Cho Chikun	Go World Iss. 101
2003-12-09	Cho Chikun	Go World Iss. 101
2003-12-11	Cho Chikun	Go World Iss. 101
2003-12-15	Mok Chin-seok	Go World Iss. 110
2005-03-25	Ch'oe Ch'eol-han	Go World Iss. 104
2006-08-30	Chang Hao	Go World Iss. 127
2006-09-01	Cho U	Go World Iss. 109
2006-11-26	Takao Shinji	Go World Iss. 111
2007-02-06	Yoda Norimoto	Go World Iss. 111
2007-07-07	Yoda Norimoto	Go World Iss. 113
2007-07-09	Yi Ch'ang-ho	Go World Iss. 113
2009-01-28	Ch'oe Ch'eol-han	The Best Game Records of 2009
2009-02-10	Ch'oe Ch'eol-han	The Best Game Records of 2009
2009-05-21	Wang Haoyang	The Best Game Records of 2009
2009-07-11	Yi Yeong-ku	The Best Game Records of 2009
2009-08-06	Hong Min-p'yo	The Best Game Records of 2009
2009-08-27	Ch'oe Ch'eol-han	The Best Game Records of 2009
2009-09-04	Lyu Tong-wan?	The Best Game Records of 2009
2009-11-17	Cho Han-seung	The Best Game Records of 2009