《华尔街日报》以《This AI Tech Billionaire Just Doubled His Net Worth. His Ex Asked for Half》为题，于2026年7月22日刊文，聚焦7月24日首尔高等法院对 SK 集团会长崔泰源与前总统卢泰愚之女卢素英离婚财产分割重审案作出的判决。一个“Doubled”，一个“Half”，恰是对这场十年拉锯最精准的注脚。

 

2026年7月24日，韩国首尔高等法院对 SK 集团会长崔泰源与前总统卢泰愚之女卢素英的离婚财产分割案作出重审判决：崔泰源须以现金向前妻支付 9440亿韩元（约6.43亿美元、43.6亿元人民币），双方财产分割比例定为崔 2/3、卢 1/3。这桩被韩媒称作"世纪离婚案"的纠纷，在持续近十年后迎来阶段性终点。

从“世纪婚礼”到“世纪离婚”

1988年，崔泰源（Chey Tae-won）与卢素英（Roh Soh-yeong）的婚事被韩国媒体称为"缔结良缘"（nuptials）。婚礼在总统府青瓦台（Blue House）举行——彼时卢素英的父亲卢泰愚（Roh Tae-woo）刚刚成为韩国军政府垮台后首位民选总统；证婚的时任总理寄语新人"组建一个为国家与人民奉献的家庭"。两人相识于芝加哥大学读研期间，政治与商业精英的结合，被视为韩国告别威权、迈向现代的标志性画面。

童话在2015年12月碎裂。崔泰源在一封寄给韩国报纸的三页公开信中宣布与妻子“干净地结束”，并承认与另一名女子相爱且育有子女。信的开篇，他引用了托尔斯泰《安娜·卡列尼娜》的名句：“幸福的家庭都是相似的，不幸的家庭各有各的不幸。”（Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.）公开信刊出后，卢素英表示"我不会和他离婚"。

身家翻倍和"迟来"的账单

让这场离婚真正牵动全国的，是 AI 浪潮下崔泰源财富的滚雪球式增长。作为存储芯片巨头 SK 海力士的掌舵人，他赶上了英伟达带动的算力红利——SK 海力士股价自2025年初飙升约 10倍，使其个人净资产翻倍，达到约50亿美元量级。2026年7月10日，崔泰源还在纽约纳斯达克敲钟，庆祝 SK 海力士赴美上市，募资逾 260亿美元。

财富越快膨胀，"怎么分"的争议就越尖锐。卢素英的开场诉求很直接：分走崔泰源约一半资产——这些资产主要沉淀在 SK 集团控股公司的股票里，而股价正随 AI 狂热水涨船高。崔泰源则抗辩：妻子对 SK 近年的成功"毫无贡献"（play no role），法官应以股价暴涨之前的估值作为分割基准。

十年拉锯：从722亿到9440亿

（5000万美元≈722亿韩元）

真正撬动二审天平的，是一张来源成谜的手写便签。卢素英的律师提交了一份由其母亲保存的便签，上面写着 SK 旧称"鲜京"及"300亿韩元"（约2300万美元）。这张便签与其他证据，说服二审法院在2024年认定：卢素英家族的政治资源对 SK 早期扩张确有贡献，故判予35%财产。但2025年大法院认为，这300亿韩元疑源于卢泰愚的"秘密资金"（卢泰愚卸任后被定罪的罪名之一就是收受贿赂，便条可以证明，300亿韩元回流到SK前身“鲜京”用来扩张集团规模），不受法律保护，不能视为卢素英的合法贡献，遂将财产分割部分发回重审。

两次入狱、一纸便签，与"政商旧账"

崔泰源的履历里，另有两段绕不开的插曲：他两度因经济犯罪入狱，又两度被总统特赦。

崔入狱期间，卢在外维持家族体面和社会网络，她依托家族政治资本，持续为崔泰源提供跨越军政府、民主政府到保守政府数轮周期，持续为崔泰源提供政治缓冲带。

事实上，崔、卢两家的命运绑定早有伏笔——1992年，SK 获发韩国第二张移动通信牌照，被在野党领袖金大中痛斥为"总统裙带关系的无耻行径"，几天后，SK交换牌照。戏剧性的是，两年后，韩国的移动电话网络已经私有化，新换政府组织公开竞标，SK以高于市价拿下了韩国最大电信运营商23%的股权，成为其最大的股东。

尾声

韩国报纸曾把两人的1988年婚礼称作"世纪婚礼"；37年后，这场离婚被叫做"世纪离婚"。从青瓦台的钟声到纳斯达克的钟声，财富、爱情、腐败与背叛交织成一出真实版韩剧。

孩子们幼时手制的海报上，写着一句稚嫩却刺眼的话——"True love"。

结语：当婚姻财产的"增值"遇上家庭"贡献"

本案对婚姻财产实务至少有三点启示：

1. 婚后股权增值，是否一概属于共同财产？ 婚姻存续期间取得的财产原则上为夫妻共有，但"婚后取得"与"婚姻贡献"的边界，在股权短期内巨幅增值时最易生争议。崔泰源主张以"暴涨前估值"为准，本质是把增值归因于个人经营能力与市场因素，而非婚姻共同贡献—这与我国《民法典》第1062条"婚姻关系存续期间所得为夫妻共同财产"、第1087条"按照照顾子女、女方和无过错方权益的原则判决"的价值判断高度相通。

2. 非经济贡献如何被"计价"？ 法院最终认定，卢素英承担家务、抚育三名子女、参与集团对外活动，对股权价值的维持与增长有实质贡献。这提示我们：家庭内部的无形付出，在财产分割中并非"不可计量"，而是需要证据与说理去呈现。

3. 证据的"三性"决定成败。 一张来源不明却关键的便签，能在一审、二审间制造近20倍的差距；而韩国法院以"合法性"存疑将其排除，直接推翻财产分割认定。可见离婚财产战中，证据的真实性、合法性、关联性，往往比离婚中的情绪宣泄更有力量。

此外，判决以"现金支付"而非直接分割股票，意在保全崔泰源对 SK 的控制权——但9440亿韩元的筹措，又成了案件执行层面的新战场。法律上"分得"，与事务中能否"付得"，终究是两回事。

资料来源：综合《华尔街日报》（2026-07-22）、韩联社、《中央日报》、新华社等公开报道。案件时间线以韩国法院公开判决为准。

免责声明：本文仅为基于公开报道的案例分析，不构成针对任何具体个案的法律意见。如涉及类似婚姻财产争议，请咨询专业律师。

附《华尔街日报》原文

This AI Tech Billionaire Just Doubled His Net Worth. His Ex Asked for Half.

By Jiyoung Sohn and Timothy W. Martin

@The Wall Street Journal

July 22, 2026

SEOUL—Chey Tae-won, the billionaire atop blockbuster memory chip maker SK Hynix, announced the breakup of his fairy tale marriage to the daughter of a past president in a three-page letter to a South Korean newspaper a decade ago.

In the letter, Chey acknowledged he loved another woman and had a child with her. In court papers cited by local media, he said he didn’t believe his 27-year marriage could be saved and quoted the opening of Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina,” a tragedy that plots its own love triangle: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

The yearslong divorce battle nears a climax Friday, when a panel of appeals court judges is scheduled to decide how to divide Chey’s roughly $5 billion fortune with his 65-year-old ex-wife, Roh Soh-yeong.

The case, known here as the divorce of the century, has mesmerized South Koreans—a real-life K-drama of money, romance, corruption and betrayal. Its expected finale comes as Chey, also 65, is seemingly having the time of his life.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Chey quaffed whiskey at a fried chicken restaurant last month with the gusto of two billionaires at the pinnacle of the world’s AI investment bonanza. Chey offered to pay everybody’s tab at the packed restaurant, and the crowd shouted “SK! SK!”

Huang and Chey, whose company makes the memory chips that helped fuel Nvidia’s rise to become one of the world’s biggest companies, had plenty to celebrate. SK Hynix’s stock jumped roughly 10-fold since the start of 2025, helping more than double Chey’s net worth.

The opening settlement demand by Roh: half of Chey’s assets, which are mostly held in stock of the SK conglomerate’s holding company that also has recently ballooned in value. Chey and Roh declined to comment.

Chey, a nephew of the SK conglomerate’s founder, posts Instagram photos of himself to tens of thousands of followers, posing with Silicon Valley chief executives such as Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Chey, who goes by “Tony” in the West, played golf at Mar-a-Lago before a meeting with President Trump last fall. Joe Biden had called him a pal during a 2022 visit.  

Chey also has twice been convicted, imprisoned—and later pardoned by two South Korean presidents—for white-collar crimes.

Roh appealed a roughly $50 million divorce judgment in 2022, which would have been a fraction of Chey’s assets. She called the sum a “denial of women’s commitment to the household.” Two subsequent trials failed to resolve the dispute.

Chey’s ex-wife now wants an appeals court to grant her a higher proportion of Chey’s fortune, fattened by the global AI frenzy, using an updated asset valuation. Chey has argued that Roh played no role in SK’s recent success and that judges should base the divvy on an earlier measure—before his company’s stock boom.

The ruling could push Roh’s settlement to as much as $1 billion, said South Korean divorce attorneys not involved in the case. A payout of that size would dilute Chey’s ownership grip on SK, exposing him to greater risk with activist investors or other outside pressure. Chey’s legal team believes the figure could be much lower.

South Korean newspapers declared their 1988 nuptials as “the wedding of the century.” The ceremony was held at the presidential Blue House just months after Roh’s father, Roh Tae-woo, became South Korea’s first president after the collapse of the country’s military dictatorship.

In December 2015, the couple’s happily-ever-after image shattered with the publication of Chey’s intention to seek a “clean end” with his wife.

In the hours after the humiliating public disclosure, Roh told friends she wondered whether she had been too selfish and inconsiderate of her husband’s emotions, according to local media reports. She also said she would defend her household and keep the family together.

“I will not divorce him,” she said at the time.

Behind bars

Chey and Roh had met as graduate students at the University of Chicago, and the powerhouse pairing—a marriage of political and business elites—embodied a fresh image for South Korea. The country had hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics and sought to put its decades of brutal military rule behind it.

At the ceremony, Roh wore a simple white wedding dress. Chey paired an ivory suit with a black tie. The country’s then-Prime Minister Lee Hyun-jae officiated. “The two of you now, as one flesh, should create a family that devotes itself to the nation and its people,” Lee told them.

Scandal later emerged involving the Roh administration’s dealmaking with SK. In 1992, SK was awarded a license to operate the country’s second mobile-phone network.

Kim Dae-jung, an opposition lawmaker who later became president, called it a “shameless act of presidential nepotism” and the “absolute climax of corrupt, political-business collusion.” Members of Roh’s party also voiced outrage.

Within days, SK returned the license. The conglomerate, which is now South Korea’s largest telecommunications player, said this month the license was granted lawfully and based on merit.

Roh Tae-woo, who died in 2021, faced various criminal charges after serving as president from 1988 to 1993. In one case, he was convicted of taking illegal payments from the heads of South Korea’s biggest conglomerates and creating a personal slush fund totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.

Evidence surfaced in court documents submitted in Roh’s divorce that her father had allegedly spent some of the money on clandestine payments to SK. Roh Soh-yeong’s lawyers submitted a handwritten note that Roh’s mother had apparently saved. It wasn’t clear who wrote it, but it showed Sunkyong—SK’s prior name—written alongside “30 billion won,” roughly $23 million.

Roh’s lawyers said the payments were made to Chey’s father, alleging it was money the ruling SK family might have used to expand the conglomerate’s businesses. Chey’s lawyers have denied that SK received such payments.

The note and other evidence persuaded an appeals court in 2024 to order Chey to give his ex-wife 35% of his assets, amounting to nearly $1 billion at the time. The supreme court last year confirmed the couple’s divorce, but left the divorce settlement for a lower court to decide. Separately, the court ordered Chey to pay Roh the equivalent of $1.4 million for the emotional distress he caused.

Chey also had criminal convictions. He was sentenced in 2003 to three years in prison for illegal trading and accounting fraud. He spent months behind bars until being released on bail. A court granted him a suspended sentence. Later, a presidential pardon wiped his record clean.

In 2013, Chey returned to prison to serve a four-year sentence for embezzling roughly $42 million in company funds. The money funded speculative personal investments that were used to help cover personal trading losses accrued years earlier.

Chey denied the embezzlement allegation, saying the transactions were legitimate corporate investments. “I don’t know what it is that I failed to prove,” he said in court, “but I can honestly say that I did not commit this crime.”

A South Korean judge criticized Chey for failing to express a sincere view about his responsibility. Chey later said, during the appeals trial, that he had made a wrong decision and “deeply regretted everything.”

Emotional distress

Chey’s partner, Kim Hee-young, is 50 years old, according to corporate filings for a foundation she leads. Kim, who uses the English name Chloe, has posted several photos with her teenage daughter.

The two established the T&C Foundation in 2018, a charitable group involved in youth scholarships and educational programs. They officially appeared together at an event the following year, where Chey said he had come to see himself as a coldhearted businessman with zero sympathy.

“I reflected on my past,” he said at the time, “and realized that I had lived my life wrongly.”

Roh finally agreed to a divorce months later. “I think it might be right to let my husband go find the ‘happiness’ he so desperately wants,” she said in a social-media post. She later sued Kim for emotional distress, winning the equivalent of a $1.5 million payout.

Roh operates the Art Center Nabi, South Korea’s first media-art museum, which had occupied a floor of SK’s downtown headquarters. Yi Won-kon, a professor emeritus of fine arts who advised Roh in the center’s early days, said he had initially doubted a wealthy socialite without formal training in media-art theory could succeed. He now acknowledges he was wrong.

The SK affiliate managing the company headquarters accused Roh’s art center of illegally occupying the space in 2023, citing a lapsed rental contract. In June, Roh moved the art center near South Korea’s former royal palace. The debut exhibit, featuring kinetic artwork, is titled, “A Pregnant Pause.”

Chey and Roh both attended their youngest daughter’s wedding in October 2024. Their daughter walked down the aisle alone. All three of their adult children have worked at SK subsidiaries. Only one does now.

Chey and SK Hynix remain on an epic streak. The company’s market value surpassed $1 trillion in late May. A recent plan for SK Hynix to invest more than $250 billion in chipmaking production in South Korea drew praise from President Lee Jae Myung, who referred to Chey and his counterpart at Samsung as “heroes of the nation and the people.”

On July 10, Chey rang the bell at New York’s Nasdaq to celebrate SK Hynix’s U.S. trading debut. The listing generated more than $26 billion for the Korean memory-chip company.

In a November social-media post, Roh expressed nostalgia as she prepared to leave the home where she had raised a family and lived for 37 years. “Now that I am over 60, everything feels precious,” she said.

Roh uploaded photos of her wedding dress, luxury handbags and other possessions. She wrote that her heart ached most looking at a poster her three children made when they were young. They affixed headshot cutouts of their parents from photos and placed them above paper cutouts of a wedding dress and a tuxedo.

The children decorated the poster with hearts and stars. They also left short messages.

“True love,” one said.

Reprinted by permission of The Wall Street Journal, Copyright 2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

Original Date of Publication: July. 22, 2026