But these days, even Europeans recognize the absolute superiority of Korea, and Lee Chang-ho is in the center of Korean Baduk. He is a very special player and also a conqueror like Napoleon. With his contribution, Korea became the world's strongest Baduk nation.

¡Ø A never ending Conqueror

At the time of liberation, Cho Nam-chul 9-dan brought over Baduk techniques from Japan. In the decades that followed, Korea always imitated Japan. Japan was the strongest and most respected, we learned Japan-made posuk and jungsuk moves and also copied brand new techniques. [Posuk (Japanese: fuseki) means full-board opening strategy; jungsuk (Japanese: joseki) means the sequences of opening plays to attain specific goals, most often in the corners, but also on the sides-editor.]
At present, Japan and China import new theories from Korea, and refer to records of Korean games. Korea, who was always an information importer in the past, is now a information exporter.