Euny Hong
Euny Hong is a Korean-American and Jewish [1] journalist and author.
Hong was born in New Jersey, the United States. At age 12, she moved to Seoul, Korea 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 is the author of the novel Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners (2006) and a non-fiction book, The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture (2014), which has been published in seven languages. She 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.
She spent 6 years in Paris, France, 5 of which were as a journalist for France 24, an international news network. She has also lived in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany. She is fluent in English, Korean, French and German.
Her 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. She has written on the French Jewish community for the blog Open Zion.
Selected works
Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners, Simon and Schuster, 2006. (German edition:"Katerfrüstuck in New York," Blanvalet 2008)
The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture. Picador, 2014 (US), Simon & Schuster (UK)
"Resilience in Paris," Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, 13 Nov. 2015Conan O’Brien accidentally exposed the culture gap between Koreans and Korean-Americans, Quartz, April 13, 2016
K-Pop Music and the Hallyu Hullabaloo, Wall Street Journal (Op-Ed)
Charlie Hebdo’s gross out cartoons are an ancient French tradition worth preservingJustin Timberlake is going to ruin Eurovision, Quartz, 13 May 2016
"Teaching Germany to Grin and Bear Cheerleading," The New York Times, November 30, 2003.
"Rise of the New Europe in Euro Pop," The New York Times, May 26, 2003.
"Growing Up Gangnam-Style: What the Seoul Neighborhood Was Really Like," The Atlantic, September 24, 2012.
"The Crazy, All-Night Goldman Sachs Scavenger Hunt," The Atlantic, June 27, 2013.
"The biggest royal event in France since Versailles: Burger King is coming back," Quartz, November 30, 2012.
"In the Future, Your Champagne Will Come From England," The Atlantic, September 24, 2012.
"No transit, no power, but my bank loves me: Hurricane Sandy’s flood of marketing emails," Quartz, October 30, 2012.