After more than nine years of litigation, the divorce and property division battle between SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and Art Center Nabi Director Roh Soh-yeong appears to be nearing its end. The deadline for either side to appeal the high court’s retrial ruling on the property division is midnight on Aug. 14. If neither side appeals by then, the decision ordering Chey to pay Roh 944 billion won ($670 million) will become final, bringing their long-running legal saga to a close. If either party appeals, the case will return to the Supreme Court, prolonging a dispute that began when Chey filed for divorce mediation in 2017. According to court filings and rulings, their actual separation began in 2005, when they started living in separate quarters at their home in Seoul. Chey has attributed the breakdown of their marriage in part to the deaths of his mother in 1997 and his father, former SK Group Chairman Chey Jong-hyon, the following year. He claims Roh failed to provide him with sufficient emotional support during that period. In 2003, Chey was arrested over an accounting fraud sca