Yang Hyang-ja (Korean: 양향자; Hanja: 梁香子; born 4 April 1967) is a South Korean politician representing Gwangju at the National Assembly from 2020 and previously served as the president of the National Human Resource Management Institute (NHI) of Ministry of Personnel Management under President Moon Jae-in from 2018 to 2019. She was the first woman to lead the Institute since the relevant position was founded in 1960s.