The Supreme Court has received the case involving SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, 65, and Art Center Nabi Director Roh Soh-yeong, 65, after Chairman Chey filed a final appeal against the remand ruling on their property division and paid approximately 800 million won in court filing fees.

According to legal circles today, the Supreme Court received the property division case between Chairman Chey and Director Roh on September 14.

A judicial panel has not yet been assigned.

Chairman Chey filed the final appeal on August 14, objecting to the Seoul High Court's remand ruling that ordered him to pay 944 billion won in cash to Director Roh.

However, he later submitted an application to reduce the scope of his appeal, stating that he would not contest 700 billion won of the 944 billion won, but would only dispute the remaining 244 billion won.

Chairman Chey's legal team stated, "As the dispute has gone on for too long, from a broad-minded perspective to reduce and swiftly resolve the conflict, we accept up to 700 billion won while disputing the amount beyond that as legally problematic."

While it was initially analyzed that the filing fees—a type of lawsuit processing fee—would reach several billion won, the reduced disputed amount brought the filing fees down to approximately 850 million won.

With Chairman Chey's side paying this amount, the case was transferred to the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, Director Roh's side has not submitted a incidental appeal as of yet.

A incidental appeal is a system where if one party appeals, the opposing party can also contest the unfavorable parts of the original ruling. Director Roh's side can file a incidental appeal until the deadline for Chairman Chey's side to submit their brief of appeal (within 20 days of receiving the notice of case record receipt).

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