'Serious About Baduk' POSCO Future M, Women's Baduk Team Departure Ceremony

The POSCO Future M women's Go team held a send-off ceremony for the Women's Go League.

On the 19th, POSCO Future M invited prospective national team players participating in the Hangzhou Asian Para Games national team selection to the Art Hall in the West Building of the POSCO Center in Seoul, where they played teaching simultaneous games with their affiliated players and held the send-off ceremony for the '2023 Women's Go League.' POSCO Future M President Kim Jun-hyung and other executives, Yang Jae-ho, Secretary General of the Korea Baduk Association, Han Myung-duk, President of the Disabled Go Association, and other Korea Baduk Association officials attended.

The teaching simultaneous games were arranged to support and boost the confidence of the top 12 ranked players participating in the national team selection on the 25th, as Go has been officially adopted as a sport in the upcoming 'Hangzhou Asian Para Games' scheduled for October.

The POSCO Future M women's Go team newly formed their team by selecting all players ranked 1st to 4th: Kim Hye-min 9-dan, Kim Kyung-eun 4-dan, Park Tae-hee 3-dan, and Kim Sun-bin 2-dan. Kim Hye-min 9-dan is a veteran who holds the record of 500 wins, achieved by only five female players domestically, and became the fourth female player in Korea to reach 9-dan in 2019.

Since the inaugural year of the Women's Go League in 2015, POSCO Future M has participated and is the only team in Korea to operate both men's and women's teams.

President Kim Jun-hyung welcomed the team members and said, "The number of possible moves in Go is 10 to the power of 171, which is more than the number of atoms in the entire universe. To satisfy the diverse needs of customers and consumers as numerous as the possible moves in Go, I will learn the art of management from Go."

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