During four weekends, the first Korean Riichi Mahjong Championship was played. The winner received a 250,000 won check.

A message from Jaewon Yu, the chairman of the Korean Mahjong League (www.kml.or.kr).

"Dear Mr. Martin Rep,

"The reason why I send this e-mail is to request an article about 2009 Korean Riichi Mahjong Championship. About 3 years ago, a few people organized an internet riichi mahjong club in South Korea. And now we have thousands of mahjong players. Our club is still small, but we are growing. In this year, we have a plan to open 2009 Korean Riichi Mahjong Championship for the first time. The championship is probably small scale in this year, but it will be effective to widen the base of mahjong player in Korea. I heard your website is very informative about mahjong. If your site introduces our competition, it will be very helpful to inform people about the Competition. If you are interested about our competition, here are the data:

Place: Rubix, Seoul, South Korea
Subscription duration: Feb. 8 ~ Feb. 28, 2009
Subscription website: www.kml.or.kr (Korean only)
Subscription price: 10,000won (approx. 7.35 US dollar) Winning prize: trophy and 250,000won (approx. 257 dollar)
The number of entrants: 32 Korean players
Contact us: yujaewon (at) gmail.com / +82-2-416-6882 Rubix
Competition schedule:

Quarter final: Mar. 8
semi Final: Mar. 15
1st Final: Mar. 22