[2] Song was born on July 5, 1960, in Sangju, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

He studied law at Yonsei University in Seoul,[3] Song made his literary debut in 1986 when he had five poems published in the Munhak-sasang in 1986.

Song continued to work at a day job for six years, until 1993, when he quit and devoted himself to writing and had his first short story "The Final 4.5 Seconds of My Life" published in the Summer Issue of Munhakdongne in 1995.

[4] Song's works focus on ordinary character, often those at the edges of society, and he gives these characters a mixture of cleverness and naivete, then drops them into unlikely situations.

[5] The Literature Translation Institute of Korea summarizes Song's work: English German Chinese French Short Story Collections Novella Novels