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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Euny Hong is a Korean-American journalist and author, based in France. Hong is the 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 a total of 18 languages, including French, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Indonesian, Thai, and Chinese. Hong 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. Euny 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.
Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.
It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.
I think we've gotten to a point where we're becoming really sensitive to things like body dysmorphia, but I think it's gone too far, where people are accusing everyone of hating themselves.
As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day; that doesn't mean you should run out and buy one.
I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.
You can call double-eyelid surgery wrong or see it as evidence of body dysmorphia, but don't overplay the race issue. It's insulting to those of us who are merely vain.
Assimilation, not success, is the American end game.
As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.
Can you think of a single situation, no matter how grave, where the atmosphere would not be instantly shattered with a loud fart - or a drawing of a butt? There is no faster way to create universal common ground.
First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.
It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your child to be really good at classical music performance.