Song Cheol-ho (Korean: 송철호; Hanja: 宋哲鎬; born 26 May 1949) is a South Korean lawyer and politician and served as the mayor of Ulsan from 2018 to 2022.
[2] Song Cheol-ho was born in Bosu-dong, Jung-gu, Busan in 1949[1] 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.
[3] 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.