AI Surge Fails to Boost Ex-Wife's Share in SK Group Divorce
In South Korea’s high-profile “divorce of the century,” Chey Tae-won’s SK Group was ordered to pay his ex-wife Roh Soh-yeong 944 billion won ($644 million), a figure that preserves Roh’s roughly one-third share and Chey’s two-thirds, despite a fivefold AI-fueled rise in chipmakers’ values. The court valued assets as of 2024, before the AI boom, and the amount is lower than earlier rulings that proposed around $1 billion. The Supreme Court had previously overturned a larger award, and the latest ruling keeps Roh’s payout within the historic asset-division framework, underscoring how AI-driven market surges interact with long-running divorces and asset splits.
