The 1st Nongshim Cup was the inaugural edition of the team Go tournament consisting of five players each from China, Japan and South Korea.
He would go on to defeat China representative Qiu Jun before losing to Japanese player Kudo Norio on 19 December.
Korea's Cho Hunhyun defeated Yoda after the Japanese representative eliminated China's Wang Lei from the tournament.
[1][2] Cho Hunhyun would lose the opening match of the third stage to Chang, who then stringed together two more victories by defeating Yamada (Japan) and Yoo Changhyuk (Korea).
Cho Sonjin of Japan defeated Chang, but then lost his next match against Korea's Lee Chang-ho.