Independence activist and friend of poet Yun Dong-ju; died in Fukuoka prison
| Life | 1917 ~ 1945 |
| Era | 일제강점기 |
| Clan | 은진 송씨 |
Song Mong-gyu was born in Myeongdong village, Longjing, Manchuria. He studied at Yonhi College and Kyoto Imperial University, was arrested in 1943 in the case of a Korean student nationalist group in Kyoto, and died in Fukuoka prison in 1945.
Born in 1917 at Myeongdong village in Longjing, he attended Myeongdong primary school and Eunjin middle school alongside Yun Dong-ju. Sources disagree on whether the two were maternal or paternal cousins. After graduating from Yonhi College in 1942 he entered Kyoto Imperial University as a special student of history.
He was arrested in July 1943 on charges relating to a Korean student nationalist group in Kyoto, sentenced to two years, and expelled from the university. He died in Fukuoka prison on 7 March 1945; his age at death is given as 27 or 29 depending on the source.