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The purpose of this study was to conduct an experiment on the students attending an academic high school by setting a Jeong-jwa activity as part of regular classes, and to investigate the changes in creative personality. Jeong-jwa is one of the practices of Toegye Yi Hwang’s idea of Gyeong. One hundred and fifty five (155) high school students were gathered and divided into two groups (experimental group: 2 classes, 59 students, 38.1%; control group: 3 classes, 96 students, 61.9%). A creative personality test developed by the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) in 2011 was utilized for measuring the students’ level of creative personality. The test consisted of 6 sub-factors (curiosity, task commitment, aesthetics, risk taking, open-mindedness, and independence of judgment) with a total of 27 items rated on a 4-point Likert scale. The pretest and posttest were analyzed with One-way ANCOVA, except for ‘open-mindedness’ and ‘independence of judgment’ among sub-factors because of lower reliability. The results showed that the main effect on creative personality and task commitment, aesthetics, and risk taking among the sub-factors of creative personality had statistically significant differences between the two groups. Nevertheless, the main effect on curiosity had no statistically significant difference between the two groups.