Song Ja (born 1936) is a South Korean politician and academic.
[2] In November 1994, Yang Dong-kwan of the Seoul Western District Court ruled that his nomination to the chancellorship had been invalid because he formally had not yet applied for restoration of South Korean citizenship at the time, and so was legally stateless.
[3] However, an appeal court ruled in May 1995 that his lack of citizenship was not sufficient reason to invalidate his nomination.
[5] In June 1997, Song was appointed chancellor of Myongji University, also in Seoul.
[3] He was the third former Myongji University chancellor to receive a cabinet position in the past decade.