It was the first European Tour event to be staged in South Korea.

From 2008 to 2010, the tournament was played at Pinx Golf Club on the island of Jeju.

From 2011 to 2013, the tournament was played at Blackstone Golf Club.

[1] The tournament was announced in July 2007 by the European Tour in partnership with the Korean PGA,[2] marking a continuation of the European Tour's expansion into Asia.

The Asian Tour, which had not been offered the co-sanctioning rights to which it felt it was entitled, responded by calling the event an "invasive" action that "colonised" Asia in "blatant disregard" of the "principles of the International Federation of PGA Tours",[3] but six months later it agreed terms to co-sanction the event.