Song Jong-ik

Song Jong-ik (宋鍾翊, 27 February 1887 – 7 January 1956) was a Korean independence activist. His family seat was Yaseong, his pen name was Ugang (友江), and he was from Jung-gu, Daegu.¹

He went to Japan to study in 1905, and in April 1906 he crossed over to the United States, where he joined the Public Association, an enlightenment movement organization of Koreans in the United States. After the incident in 1908 in which Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan assassinated the American diplomat D. W. Stevens, he worked as treasurer of the Trial Support Association. He served as Gyeongsang Province representative when the Young Korean Academy was founded in 1913, and in 1919 he served as chairman of the Young Korean Academy and treasurer of the Korean National Association.

In 1936 he was appointed to the construction committee of the Headquarters of the Korean National Association in North America. In 1941 he attended the Overseas Korean Residents' Conference held in Hawaii as a representative of the Korean National Association in North America, helped establish the Korean Residents' Joint Committee in the United States, and served as executive committee member and treasurer. In December 1941, at the general assembly of the Korean National Association, he attended as the representative of Los Angeles and was elected vice chairman of the Korean National Association; in 1944 he was elected a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the United States. In November 1945 he returned to Korea as a member of the delegation of the Korean Residents' Joint Committee in the United States, but a few months later he went back to the United States. He died on 7 January 1956, and in 1995 he was posthumously awarded the Order of National Foundation, Medal of Independence, by the government of the Republic of Korea.

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