Koo Jun Yeob Faces Legal Hurdles Over Late Wife Barbie Hsu’s Inheritance and Custody

Feb 04, 2025

Clone Koo Jun-yeop had bad news. It was observed that the sudden death of his wife Seo Hee-won could take away his inheritance and custody of his children.

Local media, including China's Wee Xiaonan, reported on the 3rd that Koo Joon-yeop did not register his marriage to Seo Hee-won. Koo Joon-yeop and Seo Hee-won registered their marriage in Korea and became a legal couple, but they did not register their marriage in Taiwan.

As a result, it was suggested that problems with estate distribution and custody could arise. The lawyer said that if Seo Hee-won had already written a will while he was alive, the legacy would be distributed according to the will. If the will was not written, Koo Jun-yeop and his two children would receive a third of the inheritance, but Koo Jun-yeop was not the children's biological father and did not report the marriage, which could lead to inheritance and custody.

There were also opinions that Koo Jun-yeop could take over the lawsuit, as Seo Hee-won continued to have a legal dispute with her ex-husband Wang Xiaofei during her lifetime. Seo Hee-won, a party to the civil suit, has already died, but the heir has decided to continue filing the suit. This means that it is highly likely that Koo Joon-yeop will continue to demand child support from Wang Xiaopei on behalf of Seo Hee-won. However, since the children's birth father is Wang Xiaofei and he is a wealthy man with more than 100 billion won in assets, they can claim custody of the children again. In fact, Jang Ran, Wang Xiaofei's mother and Seo Hee-won's former mother-in-law, also shows strong attachment to children, so legal disputes are expected to be inevitable.

Koo Joon-yeop and Seo Hee-won broke up in 1998 after dating for about a year. Since then, Seo Hee-won married Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei in 2011 and had one son and one daughter, but divorced in 2021. Upon hearing the news, Koo Joon-yeop contacted Seo Hee-won, and the two reunited, and they married in 2022. However, Seo Hee-won died of acute pneumonia while traveling to Japan on the 2nd.

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Koo Jun Yeob Faces Legal Hurdles Over Late Wife Barbie Hsu’s Inheritance and Custody

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