Janice Kim
Janice Kim
- 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. Kim is the author of the Getting Go articles that accompany installments of hikaru-no-go, a manga about a boy who releases the spirit of a famous Go player, in the American magazine Shonen Jump. She also writes occasionally for The American Go E-Journal.