In September 1965, Choe-Wall moved to Australia with her young daughter (Miki Wick-Kim) and son (Dai-Kyu Kim), having accepted an appointment with The Australian National University in Canberra as librarian of the Japanese collection in the Menzies Library, the university's principal research library.

[2] In 1980 she did her Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Science at Charles Sturt University, New South Wales.

Choe-Wall was awarded her PhD in Asian Studies (Sino-Korean Literature) from the Australian National University in 1985.

[citation needed] Dr Yang Hi Choe-Wall's main research interest is the Korean literature of the Joseon period.

[citation needed] OCLC/WorldCat Identities overview statistics for writings by and about Yang Hi Choe-Wall include approximately 19 works in 61 publications in 3 languages and 2,294 + library holdings.