First Lady of South Korea

The **first lady of the Republic of Korea** (), also known as the **first lady of South Korea**, is the title held by the hostess of the presidential residence, usually the wife of the president of South Korea.

## Role

The first lady is not elected by the citizens of South Korea, although there are no official  jobs she is required to do and not paid for being the first lady, she is often involved in political campaigns, managements of the Blue House (former residence; now officially the Presidential Residence of South Korea), supporting social causes and representing and accompanying the president to and at official and ceremonial events. First spouses have focused on different initiatives and has a strong influence on public opinion of policy to fashion.

## List of first ladies of the Republic of Korea

|<abbr title="Number"> No.</abbr>|Picture|Name|Tenure|Age at the start of tenure|President||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|**Franziska Donner** ()|rowspan=3|August 15, 1948 – April 26, 1960|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Syngman Rhee|
|2|||||||||||
|3|||||||||||
|4||**Gong Deok-gwi** ()|August 13, 1960 – March 23, 1962||Yun Posun||||||
|5|rowspan=4||rowspan=4|**Yuk Young-soo** ()|rowspan=4|December 17, 1963 – August 15, 1974|rowspan=4||rowspan=4|Park Chung Hee|
|6|||||||||||
|7|||||||||||
|rowspan=2|8||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|_Park Geun-hye_ ()|rowspan=2|August 16, 1974 – October 26, 1979|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Park Chung Hee __||
|9|||||||||||
|10||**Hong Gi** ()|December 6, 1979 – August 15, 1980||Choi Kyu-hah||||||
|11|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Lee Soon-ja** ()|rowspan=2|September 1, 1980 – February 24, 1988|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Chun Doo-hwan|
|12|||||||||||
|13||**Kim Ok-suk** ()|February 25, 1988 – February 24, 1993||Roh Tae-woo||||||
|14||**Son Myung-soon** ()|February 25, 1993 – February 24, 1998||Kim Young-sam||||||
|15||**Lee Hee-ho** ()|February 25, 1998 – February 24, 2003||Kim Dae-jung||||||
|16||**Kwon Yang-sook** ()|February 25, 2003 – 12 March 2004||Roh Moo-hyun||||||
|–||**Cho Hyun-sook** ()|12 March 2004 – 14 May 2004||Go Kun (acting)||||||
|16||**Kwon Yang-sook** ()|14 May 2004 – February 24, 2008||Roh Moo-hyun||||||
|17||**Kim Yoon-ok** ()|February 25, 2008 – February 24, 2013||Lee Myung-bak||||||
|18|colspan="2"|Vacant|February 25, 2013 – March 10, 2017||Park Geun-hye||||||
|–||**Choi Ji-young** ()|9 December 2016 – 10 May 2017||Hwang Kyo-ahn (Acting)||||||
|19||**Kim Jung-sook** ()|May 10, 2017 – May 9, 2022||Moon Jae-in||||||
|20||**Kim Keon-hee** ()|May 10, 2022 – 4 April 2025||Yoon Suk Yeol||||||
|–||**Choi Ah-young** ()|14 December 2024 – 27 December 2024||Han Duck-soo _(acting)_||||||
|–||**Choi Jungsun** ()|27 December 2024 – 24 March 2025||Choi Sang-mok ''(acting)****||||||
|–||**Choi Ah-young** ()|24 March 2025 – 1 May 2025||Han Duck-soo _(acting)_||||||
|–||**Park Eun-jin** ()|2 May 2025 – 4 June 2025||Lee Ju-ho _(acting)_||||||
|21||**Kim Hye-kyung** ()|4 June 2025 –||Lee Jae-myung||||||

## Infobox (korean name/auto)

- **hangul**: ^대한민국 대통령 영부인
- **hanja**: 大韓民國 大統領 令夫人
- **child**: yes


## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: First Lady
- **body**: the Republic of Korea
- **native name**: 대한민국 대통령 영부인
- **image**: Kim Hye-gyeong at the Inauguration Ceremony of the 21st President of Republic of Korea (cropped) 03.jpg
- **incumbent**: Kim Hye-kyung
- **incumbentsince**: 4 June 2025
- **inaugural**: Franziska Donner
- **unofficial names**: First Lady of South Korea
- **residence**: Presidential Residence of South Korea, Presidential residence
- **formation**: 24 July 1948 (72 years ago)