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Song Mun-heon (16 June 1892 – 14 August 1970) was a government official during the Japanese occupation.

Life
He is the younger brother of Song Mun-hwa, who served as a member of the Central Committee of the Korean Government-General. Born in Hanseongbu, he studied at the government Hanseong Normal School like Song Munhwa. After graduating from school in 1911, he worked as an apprentice, and in 1915, he was appointed as a military secretary in Pyeonganbuk-do and became an official of the Joseon Governor-General. Since then, he has worked as a secretary in North Pyongan Province and Gyeonggi Province.

In 1923, while working at the Interior Bureau of the Joseon Governor-General, he was promoted to the head of Cheongsong-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do. He served as the head of Cheongsong-gun, Yecheon-gun, and Sangju-gun in Gyeongsangbuk-do, and was appointed as the head of the Gyeongsangbuk-do Industrial Division in 1930 and the Gyeongsangnam-do Industrial Division in 1934.

When he was serving as the governor of Yecheon-gun, he received the Showa Daerye Memorial Medal in 1928 from the Japanese government and the Hun 6th place in 1932, and was ranked in the sixth place as of 1935. It is also included in the Joseon Meritorious Service Self-Confession, compiled by the Governor-General in 1935.

Since then, he has been promoted to governor of Gangwon-do, Hamgyeongnam-do, Hwanghae-do, and Chungcheongnam-do. In 1942, when "Oriental Jigwang" gathered congratulatory messages from all walks of life and published them in a special feature, saying, "Congratulations on the Japanese military's capture of Singapore in the Pacific War," he participated as governor of Hwanghae Province.

Among the 708 pro-Japanese groups announced by the National Assembly to establish national spirit in 2002, it was included in three categories: the governor, provincial participation officer, and Joseon Governor-General, and was included in the list of prospective Japanese life dictionaries compiled by the National Institute in 2008. It was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Committee on the Truth and Reconciliation of Anti-ethnic Acts in 2009.

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 * Songmunhwa