Euny Hong

Euny Hong is a Korean-American journalist and author, based in France. Hong is the author of three books. The novel Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners was published by Simon and Schuster in 2006. The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture was published by Picador Books in the US/Simon & Schuster in the UK in 2014, and has been published in seven languages. Her third book, The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Success and Happiness, will be published by Penguin Random House in 2019.^[1] Hong was a senior columnist for the U.S. edition of the Financial Times, in which capacity she originated and wrote a weekly television column and other articles on culture. She was awarded a Fulbright Beginning Professional Journalism Award. Euny Hong's works have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.

Hong was born in New Jersey, the United States. At age 12, she moved to Seoul with her family, and was educated in both the Korean public school system and an international school (Seoul Foreign School). After high school, she returned to the US to attend Yale University, from which she graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy. Hong spent 6 years in Paris, France, five of which were as a journalist for France 24, an international news network. Euny Hong has also lived in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany. She is fluent in English, Korean, French, and German. Hong is a convert to Judaism .^[2]