Below is a self-translation of an interesting article I've read yesterday (link). Some of the sentences might feel slightly awkward for too much of literal tranlation. 
Top Go players, who haste through ghostlike reading, they're often compared with God (the 9p rank is also called "입신" literally, "standing (with) God"). It may be true upon the board, but in life it seems not. Even the mighty Lee Sedol has once lost a game for being late.
There was a "forfeit on tardiness" from the "world division" in the Samsung Cup of "progress and innovation", which is their official term of advocation. It happened by a representative from far-away Romania, Christian Pop, having eight times of Romanian Championship and who studied as an insei in Japan for two years, currently 7dan, he was a strong candidate to the winner of this division.
He was scheduled to play a broadcasted game in the BadukTV studio in 11AM today. There were supposed to be two games played in the studio, Lee Donghun vs Wang Haoyang and Eric Lui vs Christian Pop. The other games are played in 1PM but only the broadcasted games happen two hours before.
However, Eric and Christian did not appear in the starting time of 11AM and made the broadcaster nervous. While the staff having no idea what to do for 10 minutes, Eric suddenly ran into the studio, but Christian was still nowhere to find.
His phone number was unknown and the people of KBA and BadukTV could just fidget around. After 30 minutes of absense, the referee announced a forfeit. How lucky? Eric being happy of a free win.
It was all like it should be, until after an hour (precisely at 12:30) when a tall lank man of 190cm, Christian Pop hurry-scurried sweating in the hot weather. "You've lost your game by forfeit, I'm sorry" said myself to him, and what a face of abstraction.
An email was sent to him that his game will start in 11AM, and he replied "okay". He had to admit his fault, but with a face full of sadness from missing all the delight of competing with top players from other continents.
The Romanian champion showed great regret. He arrived in Seoul yesterday and also visited the KBA office in his spare time to watch the games of oriental masters. Also, He has visited Korea several times to participate in the Korean Prime Minister's Cup, so he should be familliar with the surroundings around here.
The organizers' negligence may at least be partially relavent to the unexpected accident. In golf or tennis forfeiture is quite more common, but in Go there aren't many "players of concern". Shouldn't have it been noticed the phone number of the "blue eyed Go player" visiting Korea for a special occasion. Players from far away, especially from Europe and America, they usually visit Seoul alone. So there are always possible matters, such as oversleeping or jetlag. It would have been better to ascertain the playing time with a phone call a day before the game.
Christian Pop wanted a special match with his oppponent Eric, but the gone Eric was unfortunately uncontactable. But Chistian got an unexpected chance to learn a game from a strong Korean amateur Yun Kwangseon 7dan, who was one of the top players in the universitarian Go society, now working as a manager in the KBA office.
How did Yun 7dan deal with the "hospitality match"? Won or lost? If he had won, Christian might become sadder; but if lost, the Romanian would regret more of his forfeit...
Ah, while writiing this article, I got the result of the game, Yun lost by half point all after a close combat.
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