Euny Hong
Journalist and author
Euny Hong is an American journalist and author whose books include The Power of Nunchi and The Birth of Korean Cool.
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About Euny Hong
Euny Hong grew up partly in the US and partly in Seoul. At age 12 she relocated from the Chicago suburbs to South Korea, speaking no Korean. She later graduated from Yale University with a degree in philosophy and received a Fulbright Young Journalists' Grant. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal Europe, among others. She was a TV columnist for the Financial Times Weekend US edition and a web editor at France 24 in Paris. Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners, published in 2006, was her first novel. The Birth of Korean Cool followed in 2014, and The Power of Nunchi is her third book. She speaks English, French, German and Korean fluently.