Janice Kim, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Janice Kim

American Go player

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1969

Place of Birth: Illinois, United States

Profession: Go player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Janice Kim is a professional Go player, author, and business owner.
She was born in Illinois in 1969, and grew up in New Mexico.
As a teenager, she studied go in Korea under Jeong Soo-hyon (9-dan).
She represented the US in the first World Youth Go Championship in 1984, placing third; in 1986 she played for the US again and won the event.
In 1987 she became the first Westerner to be accepted by the Hanguk Kiwon as a pro; she remains one of only five western females ever to attain professional status (with Joanne Missingham, Svetlana Shikshina, Diana Koszegi and Mariya Zakharchenko).
She holds a bachelor's degree from New York University. In 1997, she created Samarkand, an online store for go-related items.
Samarkand later became wholesale only.
In 2003, she was promoted to a 3-Dan professional go player, the first female Westerner to do so.
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. After living for a time in New York City and Denver, Janice Kim lives in San Francisco, CA with her family.
She has now become a professional poker player.