▶주메뉴 바로가기

▶본문 바로가기

The Korea Herald
검색폼

THE INVESTOR
October 13, 2024

SEARCH

검색 폼

YOU SEARCHED FOR “Chey Tae-won”

Chey Tae-won

NET WORTH Updated Weekly

US$3.3B ▲ US$3K
Chey Tae-won
  • BIRTH

    12/03/1962

  • CORPORATION

    SK Group

  • POSITION

    Chairman

  • EDUCATION

    University of Chicago Economics, Master/Doctorate Combined (ABD)
    Korea University Physics
    Shinil High School

LISTED STOCK WEALTH

US$3.3B ▲ US$3K

PROPERTIES

774 Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul (single unit)/ 228.49㎡/ Purchasing price 4.6 billion won ($3.9 million) in 2013

  • 774 Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul (single unit)/ 228.49㎡/ Purchasing price 4.6 billion won ($3.9 million) in 2013
이전 다음

BIOGRAPHY

Chey was born in 1960 as the eldest son of Chey Jong-hyeon, president of Sunkyoung Group (now SK Group). The group’s founder Choi Jong-kun is his uncle. 
He went to Shinil High School and studied physics at Korea University. He took a MSc/Ph.D. combined course on economics at the University of Chicago before joining the group in 1992. 
He took over the company in 1998 and helped it successfully shift its course from a textile company to the country’s largest telecom service provider. 
He was sentenced to prison for fraudulent accounting in 2003 but the term was suspended. In 2013, he was given a four-year sentence for embezzlement and served about 2 1/2 years before he was released on a pardon. 
He married Roh Soh-yeong, the director of Art Center Nabi and daughter of former President Roh Tae-woo, and has two daughters and one son. 
He publicly confessed to having a lover and a child outside of his marriage late last year. There has since been suspicions of embezzlement and violation of Korea’s currency exchange control law in relation to a real estate transaction between him and his mistress.  

EDITOR'S PICKS