Choe Jeong-hui (; 1912âÂÂ1990) was one of the most successful early women writers in South Korea.
Choe Jeong-hui was born in Dancheon, 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 ' and the newspaper The Chosun Ilbo. She was associated with the Korean Artists' Proletarian Federation, and was jailed in 1934 as a result.
Her daughters, Kim Ji-won and Kim Chae-won, were also successful writers. She first married filmmaker in 1930, but they divorced a year later when she met her second husband, , in 1931 while working for Samcheolli.