Daughter of former President Roh Tae-woo
By Feature Editor Lee Sam-sun
Mrs. Roh So-young, the estranged wife of Chairman Chey Tae-won of the SK Business Group, is said to have virtually doubled her claim for alimony and division of Chey's wealth in their ongoing divorce appellate trial to over 2 trillion won (US$1.5 billion). This was reported by Yonhap News Agency in Korea on Jan. 10, 2024, which quoted judicial officials in Korea.
Chey’s SK Group, which had been way back in the ranking, grew leaps and bounds during the rule of former President Roh Tae-woo, father of the estranged wife of Chei, Mrs. Roh So-young.
Chey, who now runs South Korea's second-largest conglomerate, and Roh, the daughter of late former President Roh Tae-woo, married in 1988. But they filed for a divorce settlement between 2017 and 2019 after Chey admitted to having a child out of wedlock.
These file photos show(left) a Chairman Chey Tae-won of the SK Busienss Group nd his estranged wife, Mrs. Roh So-young (daughter of former President Roh Tae-woo of the Republic of Korea). Reports indicate that Chey’s SK Group companies grew by leaps and bounds while his wife’s father, Roh Tae-woo, was in office as the President of the Republic of Korea.
In December 2022, the Seoul Family Court approved their divorce, ordering the SK chairman to pay 66.5 billion won (US$51.21 million) in property division and alimony of 100 million won. At that time, Roh demanded alimony of 300 million won and half of Chey's stake in the group's holding company, worth about 1 trillion won.
The ruling has since been appealed to the Seoul High Court and Roh has reportedly changed her compensation demand to alimony of 3 billion won and cash of about 2 trillion won, according to the judicial officials.
Roh's lawyers contacted by Yonhap News Agency by phone refused to speak on specific details of the divorce proceedings. The appellate court hearing on their divorce is scheduled to begin at the Seoul High Court on Thursday.
About Roh So-yong (excerpts from Wikipedia):
Born March 31, 1961 in Daegu, South Korea.
Alma mater College of William & Mary, Chicago University
Occupation Director of Art Center Nabi
Years active 2000–present
Spouse: Chey Tae-won (m. 1988; div. 2020)
Children: 3 (son Yoon-Chung, daughter Min-Jung, son In-Keun)
Parent(s): Father Roh Tae-woo (president of the Republic of Korea), Mother Kim Ok-suk
Occupation: Director of Art Center Nabi in Seoul, the Republic of Korea
Years active 2000 to date:
Spouse of husband Chey Tae-won
Mrs. Roh Soh-yeong is a South Korean art museum director. She is the founder and director of Art Center Nabi.
Biography:
Roh Soh-yeong was born in Daegu, South Korea, on March 31, 1961. Her father, Roh Tae-woo, is a former South Korean politician and ROK Army general who served as the 6th President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993. She has a younger brother, Jae-hun Roh, who is a lawyer in the United States.
In 1988, Roh married Chairman Chey of the SK Corporation, and has two daughters and a son. In December 2015, Roh and Chey divorced.
She attended Sudo Girl's High School in Seoul, and then went to the United States for further education, attending the College of William & Mary in Virginia as an undergraduate and doing graduate work in economics at the University of Chicago. Then, she gained her master's degree in education from Stanford University in California before returning to South Korea for graduate study in Media Communication at Yonsei University in Seoul.
In 2000, Mrs. Roh founded Art Center Nabi. It has a predecessor of Walkerhill art museum which was a private contemporary art museum in Seoul. She transformed the art museum into a new media art museum.
Under her supervision, Art Center Nabi has been organizing various exhibitions and projects, such as Why Future Still needs Us- AI and Humanity(2016), Nabi Artist Residency 2016, Robot Theatre (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 forth.
In 2010, Ms. Roh organized the Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010 (INDAF 2010) in Incheon, South Korea. The exhibition INDAF 2010 was held from September 1, 2010, to September 30, 2010, and she gave a speech about how she got Mobile Vision in the Keynote Conversation 1.
Also, she directed the SK Telecom Pavilion at Expo 2012 held in Yeosu, South Korea, from May 12, 2012, to August 12, 2012. SK Telecom Pavilion reflected the belief that rapidly evolving information and communication technologies (ICT) could play a significant role in increasing happiness in everyday life.