SEOUL — The spouse of the chairman of conglomerate SK neighborhood filed for divorce on Wednesday, courtroom data confirmed, and has demanded greater than $1 billion value of shares within the enterprise as a part of her agreement, media reviews noted.
Roh Soh-yeong, SK group chair Chey Tae-won's wife, wishes SK Holdings shares value 1.4 trillion gained ($1.19 billion) that are held through Chey, native media, including Yonhap news agency, noted, citing unnamed sources.
Chey, fifty nine, is the 2d-era head of South Korea's third greatest conglomerate. The enterprise's organizations consist of reminiscence chip maker SK Hynix and SK Innovation that has the nation's properly oil refiner and makes electric powered automobile batteries.
he's the largest shareholder of SK Holdings with 18.four%.
If Chey have been to trans fer the shares reportedly claimed by way of his wife, he would nevertheless be the greatest shareholder within the protecting business.
Their marriage in 1988 attracted lots of consideration in South Korea as Chey changed into being groomed to guide the conglomerate and Roh turned into the daughter of South Korean president at the moment Roh Tae-woo.
but in 2015, Chey despatched a 3-web page letter to a local newspaper, publicly confessing that he had extramarital affairs.
Two years later, Chey sought a divorce agreement mediated by means of a court however the two failed to attain an agreement, in response to the Seoul household court docket database.
final yr, a divorce trial started with Chey as a plaintiff and Roh as a defendant. Roh filed a counterclaim in opposition t Chey on Wednesday, the Seoul household court docket data exhibit.
"I feel it's time to let my husband go and let him locate happiness he has desperately desired," Roh wrote on her facebook web page on Wednesday, however didn't mention her countersuit.
legal professionals for Chey and SK community declined to comment on the case citing privateness concerns. Roh's lawyers had been no longer automatically purchasable for comment.
($1 = 1,179.3300 received)
(Reporting via Heekyong Yang and Ju-min Park. editing by Jane Merriman)
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