Y. Euny Hong is a Korean American journalist and writer. Ms. Hong was born in New Jersey

New Jersey

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, the United States. At age 12, she moved to Seoul

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

, Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

 with her family, and later returned to the US to attend college. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Philosophy, where she co-founded Rumpus Magazine

Rumpus Magazine

Rumpus is a tabloid publication produced six times a year by students at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. Visually resembling the New York Post, Rumpus is a controversial, humorous publication with content ranging from campus gossip to investigative reporting.-History:Rumpus was first...

, a campus tabloid that remains in continuous operation.

She was a Senior Columnist for the U.S. edition of the Financial Times

Financial Times

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, 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.