A Korean Sung Bong HA player wins a clean score for the first time! !
prize winner
- 1st:Sung Bong HA (Korea)
- 2nd:Yuzheng GUO (CHINA)
- 3rd:Fernando AGUILAR (ARGENTINA)
- 4th:Nai San CHAN (C.HONG KONG)
- 5th:Yoshiyuki TSUCHIMUNE (JAPAN)
- 5th:Gheorghe Cornel BURZO (ROMANIA)
- 7th:Mozheng GUAN (USA)
- 8th:Pal BALOGH (HUNGARY)
- 9th:Franz-Josef DICKHUT (GERMANY)
- 10th:Tsung-Lin YANG (C・TAIPEI)
The prize for Asada fighting spirit is France representative Pierre AUDOUARD!
- Date
- 28 May-31 May 2008
- Venue
- Nihon Ki-in in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Sponsored by
- The Nihon Ki-in
- Supervised by
- The International Go Federation
- Sponsor
- Japan Airlines/Autodesk, Inc.
- With the support of
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs/The Japan Foundation
- With the cooperation of
- The Kansai Ki-in
- ASIA:14 players
- (China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
- MIDDLE&NEAR EAST: 2 players
- (Israel, Turkey)
- EUROPE:33players
- (Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom)
- AFRICA:3 players
- (Madagascar, Morocco, South Africa)
- NORTH &CENTRAL AMERICA:7 players
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(Canada, U.S.A., Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala,Mexico, Panama,)
- SOUTH AMERICA:8players
- (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay,Venezuela)
- OCEANIA: 2players
- (Australia, New Zealand)