Cho Yeonwoo

Cho Yeonwoo (Hangul:조연우, Hanja: 趙涓祐, b. 18 February 1989 is a female Korean professional 2 dan with a popular English YouTube channel Go Pro Yeonwoo as well as a Korean one 프로연우 (Pro Yeonwoo).

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Name

Cho’s original given name was Mi-kyung, but she changed to Yeonwoo in 2015. She pronounces her chosen name Yeonwoo something like “Yuh-noo” (IPA: /jʌ.nu/). The characters suggest “Yuhn-oo” (IPA: /jʌn.u/) but resyllabification is common in casual speech. Either way, the w in the standard romanization in this case is not meant to be pronounced as a consonant.

Go career

From her introduction video:

• started Go at 9 years old
• professional 1d on 10 Nov 2005 (28th Women’s Entrance Competition 1st place)
• Promoted to 2p on 1 Aug 2020
• director of Women Baduk League
• referee in tournaments
• teacher in real life and online
• appears on baduk tv
• she speaks English fluently, largely because she spent 4.5 years in (Singapore].
• when speaking English,she refers to herself by the Western name order as Yeonwoo Cho, or simply Yeonwoo

Links

• Korean Wikipedia
• Korean Baduk profile
• Go4Go
• Go Ratings and Games as Cho Yeonwoo and as Cho Mikyung

Uberdude She’s friends with Diana Koszegi 1p, so I briefly met her when I was at BIBA.