title: Hwang Yun-suk
text: # Hwang Yun-suk
  
  Hwang Yun-suk (1929–1961) was the first female judge in South Korea.
  
  ## Career
  
  Hwang graduated from Jinmyeong Girls' High School, and went on to study in the Faculty of Law at Seoul National University. She passed the third annual Higher Civil Service Examination [ko] in 1952. She took office as a prosecutor in the Seoul District Prosecutor's Office [ko] in 1953. In September 1954, she was appointed a judge of the First Civil Division of the Seoul District Court [ko], and held that position until her death.
  
  South Korea's first female court clerk, Park Gyeong-sun (박경순; 朴京順), began working for Hwang in 1960.
  
  ## Death and legacy
  
  Hwang was found dead on the morning of 21 April 1961. There is speculation she was killed by her in-laws or her husband.
  
  The Yun-suk Scholarship was established in her memory at her alma mater Jinmyeong Girls' High School in April 1962, on the first anniversary of her death, with an endowment of ₩1.5 million.
  
  