Euny Hong is a Korean-American and Jewish journalist and author. Ms. 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 a private international 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 and a non-fiction book, The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture. 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. [More at Wikipedia]