Euny Hong is an American journalist and author, based in France.

Biography

Hong is a Paris-based 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. It was named an Amazon Editor's Pick. Her third book, The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Success and Happiness, was published by Penguin Random House in 2019. Her books have been translated into 18 languages, including French, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Italian, German, Portuguese (standard and Brazilian), Indonesian, Thai, and Chinese. Hong was a senior columnist for the U.S. edition of the Financial Times, where she wrote a weekly television column and other articles on culture. She was awarded a Fulbright Beginning Professional Journalism Award. 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 in 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). While studying in Korea, she experienced anti-communist indoctrination. After high school, she returned to the U.S. to attend Yale University, from which she graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy. While at Yale, she was co-founder and the first Editor-in-Chief of Rumpus Magazine, an undergraduate humour publication that remains in publication. Hong lives in Paris, France, and was a journalist for France 24, an international news network. She has also lived in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany. Hong has been diagnosed with type II bipolar disorder, and had been married and divorced twice by the age of 33. She is fluent in English, Korean, French, and German. Hong is a convert to Judaism.

Selected works

Books