Yoo Song-hwa (Korean: 유송화; Hanja: 兪松和; born 6 April 1968) is a South Korean politician previously served as the Director of the Chunchugwan Press Center at the Blue House under President Moon Jae-in^[1][2] - the third woman to assume such post.^[3]

Upon the beginning of Moon's presidency, Yoo was appointed as the Private Secretary to the First Lady Kim Jung-sook.^[4] As part of the Blue House staffer reshuffle in January 2019, she was promoted as the Director of the Press Center, Chunchugwan, at the Blue House, the only secretary-level staff at the Office of the President not working at secretariat buildings. She is the third woman to assume the post after Kim Hyun and Seo Young-kyo who were appointed by President Roh Moo-hyun 11 years ago.^[3]

In January 2020, Yoo resigned the post to stand for the upcoming general election in April.^[2] She applied to run as her party's candidate for Seoul Nowon A constituency^[5] but lost the primary to the incumbent Ko Yong-jin (Korean: 고용진).^[6]

Yoo previously served as a Nowon District Council member from 1995 to 2002.^[5] In 2002 election, she was placed as the number 6 of the proportional list but could not be elected as a Seoul Metropolitan Council member. In 2003 she joined then-President-elect Roh Moo-hyun's transition team and later Offices of Senior Presidential Secretaries for civil societies and personnel affairs. She later worked for her party as public relations staff and later standing deputy spokesperson.^[7] In 1988 she was the president of Ewha Womans University's student union.^[8]

Yoo holds two degrees - a bachelor in economics from Ewha Womans University and a master's in urban administration from University of Seoul. She also completed a doctorate programme on North Korean studies at Dongguk University.^[9]