Yang Hyang-ja

Yang Hyang-ja (; born 4 April 1967) is a South Korean politician and former Samsung executive. She represented Gwangju at the National Assembly between 2020 and 2024. She was a former member of the Democratic Party. She founded the Hope of Korea party in 2023.

Yang was the president of the National Human Resource Management Institute (NHI) within the Ministry of Personnel Management under President Moon Jae-in from 2018 to 2019. She was the first woman to lead the Institute since the position was founded in the 1960s.

Yang was an unsuccessful candidate for President of South Korea in the 2025 snap presidential election.

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