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. == Selected works ==