Lee Sedol 9P of Korea won the 8th Chunlan Cup by winning the best of three series, 2-1 to Xie He 7P of China. It is his first Chunlan Cup title, second title win of this year, and 15th world championship win of his career. Lee Sedol is definitely having an amazing year!

Chunlan Cup is the first world championship which China holds. It started from 1999 and is sponsored by Chunlan groups (appliance company). Each player is given 3 hours and 1 minute's overtime counting for 5 times for the time. The compensation points are 7.5 and the champion and runner-up prize are $150,000 and $50,000 million respectively.