By Feature Editor Lee Sam-sun
Ms. Roh So-young, the divorced wife of SK Business Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, is said to have doubled her claims for alimony and division of Chey's assets to over 2 trillion won (US$1.5 billion) in the ongoing divorce proceedings, Korean news agency Yonhap reported on January 10, 2024, citing Korean judicial officials.
Chey's SK Group, which had been far down the rankings, saw its stock soar during the rule of former President Roh Tae-woo, the father of Chei's estranged wife Roh So-young.
Daughter of former President Roh Tae-woo, Chairman Chey Tae-won of SK Business Group
Chey, who now heads South Korea's second-largest conglomerate, and Roh, the daughter of the late former President Roh Tae-woo, married in 1988. But between 2017 and 2019 they filed for divorce after Chey admitted to having an illegitimate child.
These archive photos show (left) SK Business Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and his estranged wife Roh So-young (daughter of former Republic of Korea President Roh Tae-woo). Chey's SK Group companies reportedly grew by leaps and bounds while his wife's father, Roh Tae-woo, served as President of the Republic of Korea.
In December 2022, the Seoul Family Court approved the divorce and ordered the SK chairman to pay 66.5 billion won (US$51.21 million) in asset division and 100 million won in alimony. Roh then demanded 300 million won in alimony and half of Chey's stake in the group's holding company, valued at about 1 trillion won.
The ruling has since been appealed to the Seoul Supreme Court, and Roh has changed her compensation demand to three billion won in alimony and about two trillion won in cash, according to judicial officials.
Roh's lawyers, contacted by phone by Yonhap News Agency, declined to comment on specific details of the divorce proceedings. The appeal hearing in their divorce is scheduled to begin Thursday at the Seoul Supreme Court.
About Roh So-yong (excerpts from Wikipedia):
Born on March 31, 1961 in Daegu, South Korea.
Alma Mater College of William & Mary, University of Chicago
Profession Director of the Art Center Nabi
Active years 2000–today
Spouse: Chey Tae-won (married 1988; died 2020)
Children: 3 (son Yoon-Chung, daughter Min-Jung, son In-Keun)
Parents: Father Roh Tae-woo (President of the Republic of Korea), mother Kim Ok-suk
Occupation: Director of the Art Center Nabi in Seoul, Republic of Korea
Active years since 2000:
Wife of husband Chey Tae-won
Ms. Roh Soh-yeong is the director of a South Korean art museum. She is the founder and director of the Art Center Nabi.
Biography:
Roh Soh-yeong was born on March 31, 1961, in Daegu, South Korea. Her father, Roh Tae-woo, is a former South Korean politician and general in the South Korean Army who served as the sixth president of South Korea from 1988 to 1993. She has a younger brother, Jae-hun Roh, who works as a lawyer in the United States.
In 1988, Roh married SK Corporation Chairman Chey. He has two daughters and a son with the couple. Roh and Chey divorced in December 2015.
She attended Sudo Girl's High School in Seoul and then went to the United States for further education. She studied at the College of William & Mary in Virginia and earned a degree in economics from the University of Chicago. She then earned her master's degree in education from Stanford University in California before returning to South Korea for graduate studies in media communications at Yonsei University in Seoul.
In 2000, Ms. Roh founded the Art Center Nabi, a predecessor of the Walkerhill Art Museum, a private contemporary art museum in Seoul. She transformed the art museum into a museum for new media art.
Under her supervision, Art Center Nabi has organized various exhibitions and projects, including Why the Future Still Needs Us – AI and Humanity (2016), Nabi Artist Residency 2016, Robot Theater (2016), Robot Party (2015), Makeable City (2015), Nam June Paik SPECIAL EXHIBITION: HOMAGE TO GOOD MORNING MR. ORWELL (2014), Butterfly Series (2014, 2015), Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010 (2010), Come Join Us, Mr. Orwell! (2009), p.Art.y (2007) and so on.
In 2010, Ms. Roh organized the Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010 (INDAF 2010) in Incheon, South Korea. The INDAF 2010 exhibition was held from September 1 to 30, 2010, and she gave a speech about how she came to Mobile Vision in Keynote Talk 1.
She also chaired the SK Telecom Pavilion at Expo 2012, which was held in Yeosu, South Korea, from May 12, 2012 to August 12, 2012. The SK Telecom Pavilion reflected the belief that rapidly evolving information and communications technologies (ICT) could play a significant role in increasing happiness in everyday life.
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