Law firm Yulchon has been retained to represent SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won again in the remand trial of the property partitioning suit with Roh Soh-yeong, director of Art Center Nabi, after having secured a remand at the Supreme Court appeal stage.
According to Yulchon on the 8th, the attorneys in charge will include the previous Supreme Court counsel—Lee Jae-geun (Judicial Research and Training Institute class 28), Min Cheol-gi (class 29), Kim Sung-woo (class 31), and Lee Seung-ho (class 31)—with the addition of Lee Yoo-kyoung (class 33) and Choi Yoon-ah (class 44).
In this remand trial, the divorce and damages for emotional distress have already been finalized in the existing case, leaving only the property partitioning matter to proceed, with the first hearing set for 5:10 p.m. on the 9th.
Earlier, on Oct. 16 last year, the Supreme Court overturned the appellate ruling that Chairman Chey must pay 1.3808 trillion won to Director Roh as a property partitioning following divorce, and sent the case back to the Seoul High Court. At the time, the Supreme Court said that 30 billion won from Director Roh's father, former President Roh Tae-woo, appeared to be illegal bribery and therefore could not be recognized as Roh's contribution in the property partitioning. Accordingly, the Supreme Court held that Roh's contribution to the formation of the assets should be assessed at a lower level and the property partitioning amount recalculated.
Yulchon said, "In this remand trial, in line with the purport of the Supreme Court's remand ruling, we plan to diligently argue to redefine the scope of assets subject to partitioning, recalculate the property partitioning ratio, and correct errors in fact-finding or legal reasoning made by the previous appellate court."