Song Cheol-ho

Song Cheol-ho is a South Korean lawyer and politician and served as the mayor of Ulsan from 2018 to 2022.

Life

Song Cheol-ho was born in Bosu-dong, Jung District, Busan in 1949 and he grew up in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, where his father was born.
Song passed the bar exam in 1982 and became a lawyer.
His brother is Song Jung-ho, who served as justice minister in 2002. Like his brother, he joined the government in 2005.
Song was although he lost eight elections, he was elected mayor of Ulsan in 2018.
In 2023, Song was convicted along with then-Ulsan police chief Hwang Un-ha for election interference over a conspiracy to engineer an investigation against a rival during the 2018 election, but was acquitted on appeal in 2025.