Young-gil SONG, a lawyer and a Catholic, is a ROK politician. SONG graduated from the Department of Business Administration of the School of Business and Economics of Yonsei University in 1988, and from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of the Korea National Open University in 2005. Elected in Gyeyang District of Incheon, he has been Member of Korean National Assembly for 3 terms (16th, 17th, and 18th) since 2000. He also served as the Supreme Council Member of Korea Democratic Party, Chairman of Special Committee on Promotion of ROK-U.S. Relations and Chairman of the Legal Status Committee of the Korea-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Union.

In June 2010, he was elected as the Mayor of Incheon. He hoped to make Incheon the economic capital of ROK and himself become an aspiring mayor of Incheon. SONG held fast to friendly exchanges, peace and unity between the DPRK and the ROK. In order to promote Incheon's economic development, he still advocated to safeguard peace on the five islands of the West Sea despite the opposition of the government. He also signed an agreement with the Korea Peace Foundation to subsidize the maternity and infants of Pyongyang Maternity Hospital of DPRK, resuming the aid program to DPRK after the Cheonan Warship incident.

SONG served as the Head of the UN Weapons Investigation Mission organized the Iraq investigation mission and visited Iraq after Bush Administration groundless war against Iraq in 2003. He made the world see the position of the ROK's Parliament Members in support of solving the Iraq issue in a peaceful, anti-war and anti-nuclear way. He has been well aware of the dismal situation in Myanmar where democracy has been dampened by military juntas ans human rights has been violated. He, together with other 13 MPs, proposed a resolution supporting the democratization movement in Myanmar. In the name of 35 MPs, SONG sent the letter for urging democratization to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Myanmar's military government, expressing their fervent hope for democratization in Myanmar. SONG established a Special Committee on Promotion of ROK-U.S. Relations within the party and served as Chairman of the Committee to strengthen the South-U.S. alliance, build a ROK-U.S. FTA and consolidate economic cooperation.

In 2007, recommended by Philippe Thiebaud, French Ambassador to ROK, YSONG won "France's Legion of Honour" for promoting the development of ROK-France cooperation, which is the highest-level honor medal to foreigners. In June 2010, he was elected mayor of Incheon and in 2013, was awarded the "Order of Friendship of Russia" by Russian President Putin.

SONG conscientiously implemented the three new policy concepts of the "New Economic Map Concept for the Korean Peninsula ", "New North Policy", and "New South Policy" proposed by South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and actively promoted the connection between South Korea and the BRI. He once led the delegation to have full exchanges and discussions with Chinese Government and think tanks such as the National People's Congress of China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry and CASS, and contributed to the promotion of China-South Korea's extensive cooperation under the BRI.