Chung Young-ai (Korean: 정영애; Hanja: 鄭英愛; born 1955) is a South Korean professor of social welfare at Seoul Cyber University served as Minister of Gender Equality and Family[1][2] from 2020 to 2022.

[3] She is the first Korean to hold a doctorate degree in women's studies.

In January 2003 she joined then-President-elect Roh Moo-hyun's transition team as a member of social, cultural and women's affairs division.

In 2007 she returned to Roh's Office of the President and served as a senior presidential secretary for personnel affairs, a vice-ministerial position, till the end of Roh's presidency in February 2008.

[5] Chung holds three degrees from Ewha Womans University - a bachelor and a master's in sociology and a doctorate in women's studies.