Independence and unification activist; chief of staff to Kim Kyu-sik and author of Haebang 3-nyeonsa
| Life | 1914 ~ 2001 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 은진 송씨 |
Song Nam-heon, from Mungyeong in North Gyeongsang, was a teacher and activist. He was imprisoned in 1943 over the shortwave-radio listening case and after liberation served as Kim Kyu-sik's chief secretary in the left-right coalition effort and the 1948 North-South talks.
He graduated from Daegu Normal School in 1934 and worked as a teacher. In March 1943 he was arrested in the anti-Japanese shortwave broadcast case, sentenced to eight months, and released in 1944.
After joining the founding of the Korea Democratic Party, he worked in 1946 as secretary to the Representative Democratic Council and as Kim Kyu-sik's chief of staff, taking part in the Left-Right Coalition Committee. In 1948 he attended the North-South talks as a representative of the National Independence League; he was later arrested under the National Security Act in 1949 and again after the 1961 coup.
He left works including Haebang 3-nyeonsa (1989) and a biography of Kim Kyu-sik (2000), and received the Simsan Prize in 1999. He died in 2001 at 86 and was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation (Commendation) in 2018.