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 Post subject: South Korea's first baduk museum will open in 2020
Post #1 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:26 am 
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MUAN, South Korea, Oct. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Jeolla Province in southwestern South Korea will push ahead with a project to build the country's first museum about the ancient two-person board game Go amid heightened interest in the game, officials of the provincial government said Monday.

The local government, which has designated the town of Yeongam in the province as the venue for the museum, plans to ask the state-run Korean Culture and Tourism Institute under the Culture Ministry in January to conduct a feasibility study on the project.

The envisioned plan drawn up by the provincial government calls for the construction of a building with two stories above and two stories below the ground on a site of 17,000 square meters with an investment of 40 billion won (around US$35.18 million).


Under the tentative plan, construction of the museum is scheduled to start in September 2018 for completion in June 2020.

The construction plan comes following the high-profile matches between Google's AI program AlphaGo and South Korean Go champ Lee Se-dol in March this year. The tournament, named the Google DeepMind Challenge Match, ended with a final score of 4-1 in AlphaGo's favor.

Go, known as "baduk" in Korea, originated in China more than 2,500 years ago. It involves two players alternately placing black and white stones on a checkerboard-like grid of 19 lines by 19 lines. The object is to claim larger territories than one's opponent by surrounding vacant areas of the board with one's own stones.

The province has produced three Go champs -- Kim In, Cho Hoon-hyun and Lee. In March, South Jeolla's Lee Nak-yon said, "With the Lee Se-dol-AlphaGo matches, South Jeolla, from which three Go masters were born, assumes responsibility for mankind," indicating the local government's push for the country's first baduk museum.


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