SK chief's divorce payout hinges on quadrupled chip stock

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and his former wife, Roh Soh-yeong, returned to a Seoul courtroom on Monday for a property dispute whose size now turns on a contested question: To what date should the stock price be pegged?

Since the couple last argued the case in April 2024, shares in SK Inc., the holding company at the top of South Korea's second-largest conglomerate, have roughly quadrupled, lifted by SK hynix and global demand for memory chips for artificial intelligence.

The divorce itself i ...