Choe Jeong-hui

Ch'oe Chǒng-hǔi (1912 – 1990) is a South Korean writer. She is thought to be one of the most successful early women writers in South Korea.
She was born in Tanch'ŏn, South Hamgyong Province and was educated in Seoul. She worked at a kindergarten in Tokyo and as a journalist in Seoul before starting her writing career in 1931; she worked for the magazine "Samch'olli" and the newspaper "The Chosun Ilbo". She was associated with the Korea Artista Proletara Federatio and was jailed in 1934.
Her daughters Kim Chi-won and Kim Chae-won are also successful writers.