Tech titan ordered to pay ex-wife $644m in divorce settlement
South Korean people buy phone plans from SK Telecom and fill their vehicles at SK petrol stations.The group gained global prominence after its subsidiary SK Hynix found itself at the centre of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. In May, the chipmaker surpassed $1tn (£750bn) on the South Korean stock market.As SK Hynix's value soared, the SK Group and its chairman Chey's status also rose.
- ▪South Korean people buy phone plans from SK Telecom and fill their vehicles at SK petrol stations.The group gained global prominence after its subsidiary SK Hynix found itself at the centre of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
- ▪In May, the chipmaker surpassed $1tn (£750bn) on the South Korean stock market.As SK Hynix's value soared, the SK Group and its chairman Chey's status also rose.
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- ▪ Tech titan ordered to pay ex-wife $644m in divorce settlement — The Nation
- ▪ Chairman of South Korean tech giant SK ordered to pay $640 million in divorce case — ABC News — International
- ▪ South Korean tech billionaire ordered to pay $640mn in ‘divorce of the century’ — Financial Times — World
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Tech titan ordered to pay ex-wife $644m in divorce settlementImage source, Bloomberg via Getty ImagesImage caption, Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK GroupByJake Kwon, Reporting fromSeoul and Osmond ChiaPublished16 minutes agoThe chairman of corporate giant SK Group has been ordered by a South Korean court to pay his ex-wife 944bn won (£483m; $644m) in a case that local media has called the "divorce of the century".The award, which still needs to be finalised, is below the initial 1.38tn won that chairman Chey Tae-won was told to pay Roh Soh-yeong in 2024.It comes more than a decade after his marriage to Roh - the daughter of a former president - fell apart following the revelation he had fathered a child with another woman.SK Group runs SK Hynix, the semiconductor giant that supplies chips to…
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