Song Du-yul, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Song Du-yul

German sociologist

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1944

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Profession: university teacher, sociologist, philosopher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Song Du-yul (Korean: ???, born 12 October 1944) is a German-Korean professor in philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster, Germany.
He has been a political exile in Germany from his native South Korea for over 40 years.
Educated in South Korea, he left that nation for Germany in 1967 to pursue higher education.
He visited North Korea a total of 18 times while living in Germany, but did not return to the South until 2003.
During his visit to the South that year, he was arrested, charged, and convicted of spying for the North under the South's National Security Act in a controversial court case; in the end, he was given a suspended sentence, and returned to Germany in August 2004.