LG Cup (Go)
Full name	LG Cup World Baduk Championship
Started	1997
Sponsors	LG
Prize money	250,000,000 Won ($200,000)

LG Cup World Baduk Championship (Korean: LG배 세계기왕전, Hanja: LG杯 世界棋王戰) , is a Go competition.

[edit] Outline

The LG Cup is sponsored by the LG Group of Korea. The LG Cup was created after the Kiwang title from Korea was abolished. There are 16 players who compete in a preliminary, and another 16 players are invited. The latest edition had 256 competitors in the preliminary, the biggest in history. The players are invited from the following WeiQi/Go/Baduk associations.

• 2 from the holder and runner-up of the previous year.
• 5 from South Korea
• 4 from Japan
• 4 from China
• 1 from Chinese Taipei

The final is a best-of-three match. The komi is currently 6.5 points. The winner's purse is 250,000,000 Won ($200,000)^[1].

[edit] Winners & runners-up

Winner	Runner Up	Years Played
Lee Chang-ho	Yoo Changhyuk	1997
O Rissei	Yoo Changhyuk	1998
Lee Chang-ho	Ma Xiaochun	1999
Yu Bin	Yoo Changhyuk	2000
Lee Chang-ho	Lee Sedol	2001
Yoo Changhyuk	Cho Hunhyun	2002
Lee Sedol	Lee Chang-ho	2003
Lee Chang-ho	Mok Jin-seok	2004
Cho U	Yu Bin	2005
Gu Li	Chen Yaoye	2006
Zhou Junxun	Hu Yaoyu	2007
Lee Sedol	Han Sang-Hoon	2008
Gu Li	Lee Sedol	2009

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1. ^ English LG cup website: http://baduk.lg.co.kr/eng/