Son of Song Baek-sun who died in the Imjin War; Wonjong meritorious subject; Vice-Mayor of Hanseong
| Era | 조선 중기 |
| Clan | 진천 송씨 |
Song Rip is a descendant of the Jeonseo-gong branch of the Jincheon Song clan, introduced in Yongin Sinmun's series on old clans of Yongin. His hanja and dates were not confirmed here. The descendants of Song Gwang-u settled at Maeng-ri and Mipyeong-ri in Wonsam-myeon, Yongin, and a 14th-generation descendant, Song Baek-sun, raised a volunteer army in the Imjin War and fell in battle. Song Rip is described as his son. Baek-sun was posthumously made Minister of Revenue for this service.
According to the article, Rip followed his father to war at age eleven; when his father fell, he was captured, escaped by night and buried his father's body. He passed the military examination in 1616. In Yi Gwal's rebellion of 1624, the year after the 1623 Restoration, he was a general under Yi but cooperated with government forces and helped put down the revolt, earning the rank of Wonjong meritorious subject.
In the 1636 Manchu invasion he distinguished himself in the defense of Namhansanseong and later rose to Right Vice-Mayor of Hanseong (junior second rank). The life spans the Imjin War, the Restoration and rebellion, and the Manchu invasion in the career of a single soldier raised in a volunteer-army family.
Rip and his father are said to be enshrined at the Jincheon Song tomb ground below Sujeongsan in Maeng-ri, Wonsam-myeon, Yongin. Their graves were moved there when Garibong-dong and Dongsan-dong in Seoul were redeveloped, and descendants hold the rite on the eighth day of the tenth lunar month; the lodge Bongikjae was built there in 1998. This page relies on a single local article, so titles and years could not be cross-checked.
Yongin Sinmun says the Maeng-ri ground holds the founder Song Gwang-u and descendants including his son Song Gi (governor of Gyeongju, magistrate of Bupyeong and Seoheung), Song Seon, Song Yeon-jong (1477 civil examination, Byeongjo Jeongnang), Song Cheon and Song Baek-sun. Mipyeong-ri now has about ten households, but until the 1950s about thirty families lived there as a clan village.
Jincheon Song tomb ground below Sujeongsan, Maeng-ri, Wonsam-myeon, Cheoin-gu, Yongin