Janice Kim
American Go player
Janice Kim is an American professional Go player, author, and business-owner.
Early life and education
Kim was born in Illinois in 1969 and grew up in New Mexico. She earned a bachelor's degree from New York University.
Career
As a teenager, she studied Go in Korea under Jeong Soo-hyon. She represented the U.S. in the first World Youth Go Championship in 1985, placing second. In 1986, she played for the U.S. again and won the event. In 1987, she became the first westerner to be accepted by the Korea Baduk Association as a pro. She remains one of only five western women ever to attain professional status (with Joanne Missingham, Svetlana Shikshina, Diana Koszegi and Mariya Zakharchenko).
In 1997, she created Samarkand, an online store for go-related items. In 2003, she was promoted to a 3-Dan professional Go player, the first female westerner to do so.
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