Koo Jun-yeop, will you take away 15 billion won…Seo Hee-won's legacy war continues even though he refused a large advertising fee
Apr 02, 2025
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According to local media such as Sohu Dotcom Epping News on the 1st, there is a noise surrounding the legacy of the late Seo Hee-won of Taiwan $600 million (KRW 26.58 billion).
Local media reported that `the dispute over the distribution of Seo Hee-won's heritage has taken an unexpected turn.'
According to Article 1137 of the Taiwan Civil Code, parents who are secondary heirs are not eligible for inheritance if their spouse and children, who are primary heirs, are alive. In other words, Seo Hee-won's property should be shared by Koo Joon-yeop and his two children by a third, but Hwang Chun-mae won 200 million Taiwanese dollars (8.86 billion won) as a "retirement package" after several negotiations," he said.
Subsequently, "Seo Hee-won's two children received 100 million Taiwanese dollars (4.43 billion won) legally, but the actual amount received from 20% inheritance tax was reduced to 160 million Taiwanese dollars (7.08 billion won). More importantly, the right to actually control the funds rests entirely with the father-in-law, Wang So-bi. Wang said he had begun preparing to bring his children to Hong Kong and planned to use their heritage to fund his business with the help of his wife, who is about to remarry."
Koo said earlier that he would hand over his rights to Seo Hee-won's legacy to his mother-in-law Hwang Chun-mae and take legal action to prevent bad people from accessing his children's property and authority. However, overshadowing his decision, Hwang Chun-mae is on the verge of collecting a large amount of money separately in the name of retirement funds and falling into the hands of his father, who owes hundreds of billions of won to his children.
In the midst of this, Koo Joon-yeop is still missing Seo Hee-won and is reportedly unable to recover his daily life. He visited Geumbosan Mountain, where Seo Hee-won was enshrined, ahead of Cheongmyeongjeol, and has stopped his entertainment activities, refusing even a large amount of advertising money.
Koo Joon-yeop and Seo Hee-won got married in 2022, but Seo died during a trip to Japan in February.
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