Biography
Song Kang-Ho is a Korean Jeju Naval Base resister. Trespass and obstruction of business during naval base construction on Jeju.
Since 2007, the South Korean government has been constructing a major naval base on Gangjeong village, Jeju Island — a UNESCO biosphere reserve and South Korea's southernmost island. The base, designed to host U.S. and South Korean Aegis destroyers and a port-of-call for U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, is widely understood as a forward-deployment site for the U.S. military's posture against China. Local Gangjeong residents and Korean peace activists have maintained continuous nonviolent resistance at the construction gates since 2010; hundreds have been arrested and dozens have served Korean prison sentences for trespass, obstruction, and civil disobedience.
The October 2013 Gangjeong prison roster lists confinement at Jeju since July 1, 2013, identifying October 8 as day 100 and prisoner numbers 409 for Song and 535 for Park. These contemporary dates conflict with the existing August 20–September 29 forty-day account. The discrepancy is preserved as a sourced note without silently replacing endpoints or inferring another arrest. Gangjeong Village Story, October 2013, original PDF page 2. Source: https://savejejunow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Gangjeong-Village-Story_Oct-2013.pdf#page=2
2013 prison chronology: conflicting legacy dates
The September and October 2013 original Gangjeong Village Story newsletters both list Song Kang-Ho at Jeju Prison since July 1. The October issue states October 8 was his hundredth day in prison. This conflicts with the legacy August 20–September 29, 2013 forty-day row, which cannot describe the same uninterrupted episode. Source evidence establishes July 1, 2013 entry and continued October custody, but no actual release. The legacy episode must be reconciled against its original source before replacement or addition to avoid double counting.
Sources: October 2013 newsletter, page 2; September 2013 newsletter, page 2. Dates in the existing case remain unchanged pending resolution of this discrepancy.
The Nuclear Resister reports that Song Kang-ho was taken into custody at court on March 30, 2020 and remained detained at Jeju Dongbu Police Station as of that report. This followed his March 7 entry into the Jeju naval base to pray at Gureombi Rock. The March 7 questioning ended with permission to leave and is not treated as continuous custody through March 30. No completed release, trial outcome or measured custody duration is established by this report.
The Nuclear Resister, March 30, 2020, including the reproduced solidarity petition.
The September 2012 Nuclear Resister states that Song Kang-Ho had been in Jeju Prison since April 1 for interfering with the business of the Jeju naval-port construction company. Its prisoner list identifies his historical 2012 Jeju number as 611. This earlier detention is distinct from the separately documented 2013 and 2020 proceedings; no final discharge or measured completed duration is supplied.
The Nuclear Resister’s September 28, 2012 report describes Song Kang-Ho outside Jeju Prison following his release that day and reports 181 days imprisoned. Together with the previously documented April 1 admission, this establishes the 2012 release date. The source reports 181 days; the documented dates are 180 elapsed days apart. No numerical custody total is assigned here.
