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{{Short description|Korean-American journalist}}
[[File:Euny Hong 02.jpg|thumb|Euny Hong, 2025]]
'''Euny Hong''' is an American [[New Yorkers in journalism|journalist]] and author, based in [[France]].

==Biography==
Hong is a Paris-based author of three books.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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''<ref>{{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. }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">{{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 }}</ref> Her third book, ''The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Success and Happiness'', was published by [[Penguin Random House]] in 2019.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Her books have been translated into 18 languages, including French, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Italian, German, Portuguese (standard and Brazilian), Indonesian, Thai, and Chinese.<ref>https://eunyhong.com {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Hong was born in [[New Jersey]] in the [[the United States|United States]]. At age 12, she moved to [[Seoul]] with her family, and was educated in both the [[education in South Korea|Korean public school system]] and an international school ([[Seoul Foreign School]]). While studying in Korea, she experienced [[Anti-communism|anti-communist indoctrination]].<ref name=":0" /> 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 [[:fr:France 24|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.<ref name="mc2008">"Living With A Crazy Husband", Marie Claire v15, issue 9, Sep 2008, p.278</ref> She is fluent in English, Korean, French, and German. Hong is a convert to [[American Jews|Judaism]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==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}}

==See also==
* [[Koreans in France]]
* [[Koreans in New York City]]
* [[New Yorkers in journalism]]
* [[Popular culture]]

==References==
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