Euny Hong

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

Biography

Hong is a Paris-based author of three books.{{Cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=2023-08-08 |title=Opinion {{!}} In Paris, I Get Judged on What I Speak, Not How I Look |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/opinion/contributors/language-france-french-perception.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} 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{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/books/review/the-birth-of-korean-cool-by-euny-hong.html | title=Seoul Survivors | newspaper=The New York Times | date=29 August 2014 | last1=Choi | first1=Mary H. K. }} 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.{{cite book |isbn=978-1250045119|title=The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture |last1=Hong |first1=Euny |date=5 August 2014 |publisher=Macmillan }} Her third book, The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Success and Happiness, was published by Penguin Random House in 2019.{{Cite web |title=The Power of Nunchi by Euny Hong: 9780143134473 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608336/the-power-of-nunchi-by-euny-hong/9780143134466 |access-date=2022-11-03 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Rennolds |first=Andrea Núñez-Torrón Stock, Nathan |title=Nunchi — a 'sixth sense' taught in Korean schools — may be the missing key to happiness and success |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/sixth-sense-taught-in-korean-schools-is-key-happiness-success-2022-1 |access-date=2022-11-03 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}} Her books have been translated into 18 languages, including French, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Italian, German, Portuguese (standard and Brazilian), Indonesian, Thai, and Chinese.https://eunyhong.com {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}

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.{{Cite web |first=Euny |last=Hong |title=This Korean parenting style is the best-kept secret to raising smart and successful kids |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/how-korean-parents-raise-smart-successful-kids-best-kept-secret.html |access-date=2022-11-03 |website=CNBC |date=15 November 2019 |language=en}}

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{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}, 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."Living With A Crazy Husband", Marie Claire v15, issue 9, Sep 2008, p.278 She is fluent in English, Korean, French, and German. Hong is a convert to Judaism.{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/15/a-jewish-american-in-paris|title=A Jewish American In Paris|first=Euny|last=Hong|date=15 January 2013|website=The Daily Beast}}

Selected works

{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=August 8, 2023 |title= In Paris, I Get Judged on What I Speak, Not How I Look

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/opinion/contributors/language-france-french-perception.html |work=The New York Times}}

{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=January 3, 2023 |title= I May Have Started a Rumor About K-Pop, and It May Be Ruining My Life

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/opinion/bts-k-pop-conspiracy.html |work=The New York Times}}

{{cite news |last1=Hong |first1=Euny |title=Americans ruined pizza, St. Patrick's Day and House of Cards. Now they're ruining Eurovision |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/americans-ruined-pizza-st-patricks-day-and-house-of-cards-now-theyre-going-to-ruin-eurovision/ |work=Politico Europe |date=21 May 2021}}
{{cite news |last1=Hong |first1=Euny |title=Book Review: In This Korean Best Seller, a Young Mother Is Driven to Psychosis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/books/review/kim-jiyoung-born-1982-cho-nam-joo.html |work=The New York Times |date=14 April 2020}}
{{cite news |last1=Hong |first1=Euny |title=Opinion: I Grew Up Around Korean Beauty Products. Americans, You've Been Had.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/opinion/sunday/korean-beauty-products-america.html|work=The New York Times |date=2 November 2017}}
{{cite news |last1=Hong |first1=Euny |title=Why I've Stopped Telling People I'm Not Chinese |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/opinion/coronavirus-chinese-asian-racism.html |work=The New York Times |date=15 May 2020}}
{{cite news |last1=Hong |first1=Euny |title=Opinion: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/opinion/sunday/nunchi.html |work=The New York Times |date=19 December 2019}}
{{cite news |last1=Hong |first1=Euny |title=Opinion: I Grew Up Around Korean Beauty Products. Americans, You've Been Had.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/opinion/sunday/korean-beauty-products-america.html|work=The New York Times |date=2 November 2017}}
{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=July 21, 2017 |title=Unfamous Valley: Why it sucks to be not quite famous |url=https://qz.com/1034318/unfamous-valley-why-it-sucks-to-be-not-quite-famous |work=Quartz}}
{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=November 13, 2015|title="Resilience in Paris" |url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-resilience-in-paris-20151113-story.html |work=The Los Angeles Times}}
{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=April 13, 2016 |title=Conan O'Brien accidentally exposed the culture gap between Koreans and Korean-Americans |url=http://qz.com/659674/conan-obrien-accidentally-exposed-the-culture-gap-between-koreans-and-korean-americans/ |work=Quartz}}
{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=May 13, 2016 |title=Justin Timberlake is going to ruin Eurovision |url=http://qz.com/683536/justin-timberlake-is-going-to-ruin-eurovision/|work=Quartz}}
{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=May 13, 2016 |title=K-Pop Music and the Hallyu Hullabaloo |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/k-pop-music-and-the-hallyu-hullaballoo-1466117278 |work=The Wall Street Journal}}
"{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=November 30, 2003 |title=Teaching Germany to Grin and Bear Cheerleading |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/sports/football/30CHEE.html?pagewanted=1#_blank |work=The New York Times}}
{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=May 26, 2003 |title= Rise of the New Europe in Euro Pop

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/26/arts/rise-of-the-new-europe-in-euro-pop.html?pagewanted=1#_blank%20Rise%20of%20the%20New%20Europe%20in%20Euro |work=The New York Times}}

{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=September 24, 2012 |title= Growing Up Gangnam-Style: What the Seoul Neighborhood Was Really Like |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/growing-up-gangnam-style-what-the-seoul-neighborhood-was-really-like/262770 |work=The Atlantic}}
{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=June 27, 2013 |title= The Crazy, All-Night Goldman Sachs Scavenger Hunt |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/the-crazy-all-night-goldman-sachs-scavenger-hunt/277318/ |work=The Atlantic}}
{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=November 30, 2012 |title= The biggest royal event in France since Versailles: Burger King is coming back |url=http://qz.com/32903/the-biggest-royal-event-in-france-since-versailles-burger-king-is-coming-back/ |work=Quartz}}
{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Euny |date=September 24, 2012 |title=In the Future, Your Champagne Will Come From England |url=http://qz.com/21860/no-transit-no-power-but-my-bank-loves-me-hurricane-sandys-flood-of-marketing-emails/ |work=The Atlantic}}

Books

({{Cite book | last = Hong | first = Euny | year = 2019 | title = The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success | publisher = Penguin |isbn = 978-0143134466}}
({{Cite book | last = Hong | first = Euny | year = 2014 | title = The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World through Pop Culture | publisher = Picador| isbn = 978-1250045119}}
({{Cite book | last = Hong | first = Euny | year = 2006 | title = Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners | publisher = Simon & Schuster| isbn = 978-0743286848}}