Chey Tae-won

$1.23B

$1.4M (0.1%)

as of 10/04/24

About Chey Tae-won

Chey Tae-won chairs the SK Group, Korea's second-largest conglomerate with interests in telecom, semiconductors, chemicals and energy, among others.

The group's SK Telecom is South Korea's No. 1 mobile carrier; its SK Hynix is the country's second-largest chip maker.

In 2013 he was convicted of misappropriating company funds but was later pardoned by then-president Park Geun-hye and returned to his post in 2016.

Chey is a nephew of SK Group founder Chey Jong-gun, who started the conglomerate with a textile company called Sunkyong.

Personal stats

Citizenship

South Korea

Source of wealth

Oil, semiconductor

Residence

Seoul, South Korea

Marital status

Divorced

Birth date

12/03/60 (age 63)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Korea University; Master of Science, University of Chicago

Self-made

inherited and growing

Chey Tae-won’s fortune is worth

21K

troy ounces of gold

19K

median U.S. household

12K

median U.S. income

0.025%

U.S. credit card volume

0.005%

GDP of the United States

0.004%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

While in jail he authored a book on social enterprises.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

KOREA | 006120-KR

SK Discovery

KOREA | 034730-KR

SK Holdings