Pak Song-Chol was born in Keishū, Keishōhoku-dō (today North Gyeongsang Province) during the Japanese colonial period.

In the spring of 1942, as a Soviet military reconnaissance officer, he was given the task of following the deployment situation of Japanese troops at the border.

After that, he moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from August 1954, he served as an envoy to the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and in May 1955 the ambassador.

[4] He was appointed Vice President by the Supreme People's Assembly in December 1977 and he left the office in October 1997.

[5][6] His last public appearance was in September 2003 in the viewing box at the 55th-anniversary commemoration inspection ceremonies in North Korea.