Lee Hyo-jeong

Lee Hyo-jeong (; born July 28, 1913) was a South Korean independence activist and later a poet. She went to prison for her activities. Her work was recognised in 2006 with an award. There is a statue of her and her friend, who died in North Korea, in Seodaemun Prison Museum.

Life Lee Hyo-jeong was born in 1913 in Bonghwa County. Her father died when she was one and for a time she was in Bongcheon, Manchuria. She came from an anti-Japanese family and she returned to be home-schooled by her grandfather. She was a keen and attentive pupil. Her fifth cousin was the Korean nationalist and language expert Lee Byeong-gi and he gave her lessons. Influenced by the Gwangju Student Movement in 1929, she participated in protests on campus and a strike in 1931 where students agreed to submit blank answer sheets in exams. Some students who did not comply alleged that the blank sheets were due to ignorance, but the existence of Park Jin-hong, the star student's empty sheet proved that they were wilfully misbehaving. Hundreds of students were suspended

On the 100th anniversary of the March 1st movement, publications included the accounts of her time when she was a student. in one of the women's cells.

In her seventies she took to writing poetry.