Even the president's 'Rubber God Go'... Former and incumbent heads of Korea, China, Japan, and Japan's "anti-love"

Even the president's 'Rubber God Go'... Former and incumbent heads of Korea, China, Japan, and Japan's "anti-love"

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His affection for Go was unique, which he had encountered since he was a child. It seemed that the life lessons learned from Ban Sang, who was described as a miniature version of his life, were considered nourishing to him. This is because it is believed that the mechanism behind the fierce competition is still valid in the political circle. Such was the case with President Lee Jae-myung's praise for Ban Sang, who appeared on a talk show program on Go TV while serving as Seongnam's mayor in 2017. " (Go is) in contact with politics a lot in terms of competition and strategy," President Lee said in the broadcast at the time. "If you overdo anything, you will be punished." This is an explanation that compares the excessive paid-for, which means that it is not enough, and it is only natural for you to do your best in both Go and politics.바카라

Along with the inauguration of the new administration, attention is being paid to President Lee's interests. The move is expected to have a significant impact on the management of state affairs, which he will take responsibility for over the next five years.

According to the detailed profile disclosure related to President Lee, who was a presidential candidate in the Democratic Party of Korea on the 4th, his hobby, which was pointed out as a priority, was "go." In fact, President Lee was so interested in the head of state that he usually claimed to be a "愛棋" of Go. This is why the Go TV broadcast that he appeared on was recalled seven years ago. "My father, who worked as a street cleaner in the market, naturally encountered Go while enjoying it," he said in the program. "There are a lot of black stones when I play go, but white stones often disappeared, and it was a time when I was in a difficult situation, so I used to play Go by cutting rubber shoes."

President Lee also said, "I only have deep thoughts, but I have no tricks in Go or politics." "In the past, I played a lot of Go games when I was stressed out, but I seemed to clear up mentally, and my Go skills improved quickly when I was playing again." President Lee, who publicly said about his energy, "I am a 'go maniac' who is about five levels of Internet Go amateur," is known to have read a considerable amount of Go books, saying, "I will achieve my dream of becoming a 'go master.'

Former President Moon Jae In also had a special attachment to Go. Former President Moon, who has been interested in Go since middle school, is said to have considered Korean Go legend Cho Hoon-hyun (72) 9 dan or Seo Bong-soo (72) 9 dan in his spare time. Former President Moon, who is probably 4 dan, also left a recommendation in the book "God's Handsome Man's Hands 78" (published in April 2016), which introduced the back story of the seven-day war between Lee Se-dol (42, retired) and Google Go artificial intelligence (AI), a representative of the human community, in March 2016. "I learned life through Go and I think politics is no different," former President Moon wrote in the recommendation. "I always have to look big, look far, and look at the whole thing." "It's like you have to look at the trend while always looking at the whole thing, not stick to the local battle on the go," he added. "It's like the trick can't beat the essence."

Former President Moon's love toward him was also revealed on social networking services (SNS). On August 23, 2023, after learning that Shin Jin-seo (25) won the 9th Ngshibae World Professional Baduk Championship (winning prize money of 400,000 dollars, about 550 million won), former President Moon said on social media, "Congratulations on Shin's victory in the 'Ngshibae' (which is held every four years), it was a feat of proving once again that he is the number one player in the world by winning the world's best Go competition called the 'Go Olympics' (which is held every four years), and raising the status of Korean Go." In the '9th Ngshibae' held as the 3rd round (best out of three), Shin 9 dan won the title of Ngshibae (best out of two games) by winning two out of two to China's first-class driver Shekker (28) and presented Korea with the title of Ngshibae for the first time in 14 years.

The love of Go by heads of countries around the Korean Peninsula is no exception. Notably, Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-Sang-Ae 愛, who has always preached his belief that "you can learn the principles of 治 (ruling a country) on a go," is also famous. The relationship between Xi and Go started in the late 1970s. After graduating from Tsinghua University in 1979, Xi started his career as secretary of Geng Biao, then the secretary general of the Central Military Commission. He stressed to his staff that Go improves their ability to see the overall situation.

Since then, President Xi has been so immersed in the idea that he even asked Nie Weiping, 73, a close friend, for a separate tutoring. Nie Weiping, the 9th dan, took the mound as the last player of the Chinese team in the 1st to 3rd tournament of the "China-Japan Super Grand Battle", which began in 1985, and has won 11 consecutive games against Japan's best players, who were the mainstream in the world of Go, even earning the nickname "Iron Gatekeeper."

An anecdote about the Korea-China relationship with President Xi is also notable. At a banquet at the presidential guesthouse during his visit to Korea in July 2014, President Xi said, "I don't know all the guests who came today, but there is only one person I know very well," and turned to Lee Chang-ho, a 50-year-old star in the K-baduk community, who was present at the venue. Xi went on to say, "It is so famous that even the leading knights in China have rarely won the 9th dan," and the episode in which he shook hands with the 9th dan is still being talked about both inside and outside the Go world. In December 2017, shortly after his summit with former President Moon in China, President Xi once again imprinted his love of Go by delivering a go board and eggs made of jade as gifts. It is widely believed that the adoption of Go as an official sport at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games (AG) in China and the 2022 Hangzhou AG was also made under the influence of President Xi.