Lee Hyo-jeong (Korean: 이효정; born July 28, 1913) was a South Korea independence protestor and in later life a poet.

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.

Its founder Son Byeong-hee had been arrested and replaced as headteacher in 1919 for being involved in the independence movement.

[3] Her fifth cousin was the Korean nationalist and language expert Lee Byeong-gi and he gave her lessons.

[5] Lee Hyo-jeong went on to teach at Ulsan Primary School and she continue to agitate.

[1] In 2006 the government decided that it would award medals to people who had helped to establish South Korea but they had been ignored if they were socialists.

It has statues of Lee Hyo-jeong and Park Jin-hong reunited[6] in one of the women's cells.