The remand trial in the divorce case of Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, and Noh So-young, director of Art Center Nabi, has been assigned to the Family Division 1 of the Seoul High Court (Presiding Judge Lee Sang-ju).
According to legal sources on the 21st, after receiving the case records remanded by the Supreme Court, the Seoul High Court on the afternoon of the same day assigned them to Family Division 1.
Presiding Judge Lee passed the bar exam in 1984 and completed the Judicial Research and Training Institute as the 17th class. Starting as a judge at the Northern Branch of the Seoul District Court, Lee served as a senior judge at the Seoul Central District Court, a research judge at the Supreme Court, a senior judge at the Seoul High Court, and the president of the Suwon High Court, and returned to the Seoul High Court in February to lead Family Division 1.
Earlier, the Supreme Court's First Division (with Justice Seo Kyung-hwan presiding) on the 16th accepted Chey's appeal and overturned the appellate ruling that had been premised on former President Roh Tae-woo's 30 billion won slush fund allegedly flowing to SK. Accordingly, the amount of property division Chey must pay to Director Noh will be newly determined by the remand court.