A short round-up of the winners and losers emanating from the PokerStars Festival Main Events in both South Korea & Lille.

In London, when terror strikes, the locals react by telling everyone to keep calm and have a cup of tea. In South Korea, upon hearing the news that North Korea has promised to send a nuclear warhead into the heart of the USA if they try to remove Kim Jong Un from power, a move that would almost certainly have cataclysmic consequences for South Korea, they play poker.

Life goes on, even in this mad, mad, world of ours.

Taehoon Han, a 26-year-old born in Korea, but living in New Zealand, has won the inaugural PokerStars Festival Korea Main Event. Han, a part-time player, picked up $74,651 for the win, after defeating the Japanese high stakes cash game shark, Yuki Ko, in heads-up action.