Euny Hong
@euny.bsky.social
bestselling author, The Birth of Korean Cool et al. Paris-based. Eurovision fan.
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always a pleasure and honor to join Steve and @thehighsign.bsky.social on the Culture Gabfest, this time to talk the new Fantastic Four, Netflix's K-Pop Demon Hunters (w/ an assist from @euny.bsky.social!), and *that* South Park episode:
Fantastic Four: First Steps resuscitates one of Marvel’s most doomed IPs.
Is it clobbering time for Marvel again? Fantastic Four: First Steps attempts to breathe new life into the super quartet.
slate.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
always a pleasure and honor to join Steve and @thehighsign.bsky.social on the Culture Gabfest, this time to talk the new Fantastic Four, Netflix's K-Pop Demon Hunters (w/ an assist from @euny.bsky.social!), and *that* South Park episode:
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"As an Asian who sings disturbingly white songs like Neil Diamond’s “Cherry, Cherry” at Asian karaoke; who speaks French with a German accent, German with a French accent, and Korean with an American accent, I feel seen." Best line in the Sunday NYTimes! Thx, @euny.bsky.social, for my morning laugh.
So I seem to write a lot about Kpop for someone who does not like Kpop. My latest for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/o...
Opinion | ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is My Kind of Globalism
www.nytimes.com
August 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"As an Asian who sings disturbingly white songs like Neil Diamond’s “Cherry, Cherry” at Asian karaoke; who speaks French with a German accent, German with a French accent, and Korean with an American accent, I feel seen." Best line in the Sunday NYTimes! Thx, @euny.bsky.social, for my morning laugh.
10 years ago, I was seated next to Diane Ladd on a plane from Boston to Austin for SXSW. I had no idea who she was but she had a golden aura. She introduced herself. She guessed that I was a Sagittarius and said, "Sagittarians get physically sick when they're being lied to." RIP #dianeladd
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
10 years ago, I was seated next to Diane Ladd on a plane from Boston to Austin for SXSW. I had no idea who she was but she had a golden aura. She introduced herself. She guessed that I was a Sagittarius and said, "Sagittarians get physically sick when they're being lied to." RIP #dianeladd
So I seem to write a lot about Kpop for someone who does not like Kpop. My latest for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/o...
Opinion | ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is My Kind of Globalism
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
So I seem to write a lot about Kpop for someone who does not like Kpop. My latest for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/o...
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Birthrates are falling — nowhere more dramatically than in South Korea. @euny.bsky.social, who knows a bit about South Korean pop culture, says one reason is evident in TV's popular K-dramas — if you know where to look [gift link]:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
Opinion | Watching South Korean TV Won’t Make You Want to Have a Baby
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Birthrates are falling — nowhere more dramatically than in South Korea. @euny.bsky.social, who knows a bit about South Korean pop culture, says one reason is evident in TV's popular K-dramas — if you know where to look [gift link]:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
Some dude made a video of #Eminem's "Lose yourself" in the form of 331 movie clips stitched together. I mean this is a massive triumph of eidetic memory and FinalCut Pro. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYta...
Eminem - LOSE YOURSELF (Sung by 331 Movies!)
YouTube video by The Unusual Suspect
www.youtube.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Some dude made a video of #Eminem's "Lose yourself" in the form of 331 movie clips stitched together. I mean this is a massive triumph of eidetic memory and FinalCut Pro. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYta...
My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: I never recommend K-Dramas but this is an emergency, guys. They hold the answers to why Korea has the world's lowest fertility rate. TV is the new books. Thanks for the usual editing magic @sternbergh.bsky.social (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
Opinion | Watching South Korean TV Won’t Make You Want to Have a Baby
www.nytimes.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: I never recommend K-Dramas but this is an emergency, guys. They hold the answers to why Korea has the world's lowest fertility rate. TV is the new books. Thanks for the usual editing magic @sternbergh.bsky.social (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
Yes, I heard. No, I haven't seen it. No, I don't care that Darren Criss is not Korean.
@maybehappyending.bsky.social #Maybehappyending #DarrenCriss #Tonys
@maybehappyending.bsky.social #Maybehappyending #DarrenCriss #Tonys
June 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Yes, I heard. No, I haven't seen it. No, I don't care that Darren Criss is not Korean.
@maybehappyending.bsky.social #Maybehappyending #DarrenCriss #Tonys
@maybehappyending.bsky.social #Maybehappyending #DarrenCriss #Tonys
Is your plush animal having trouble being taken seriously as a journalist? Then do what I did and crochet them an old-timey fedora with a band around the crown to prominently display their press credentials. #Crochet instructions in comments. @amigrumi #eunyhong #journalistlife
May 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Is your plush animal having trouble being taken seriously as a journalist? Then do what I did and crochet them an old-timey fedora with a band around the crown to prominently display their press credentials. #Crochet instructions in comments. @amigrumi #eunyhong #journalistlife
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This week on the podcast: @euny.bsky.social is here to chat genre-bending, K-pop, and the last 5 songs of the first #Eurovision semifinal!
this was a delightful conversation, DEFINITELY check this one out, folks.
this was a delightful conversation, DEFINITELY check this one out, folks.
🇭🇷🇸🇪NEW🇸🇲EPISODE🇵🇹🇨🇾
Culture critic @euny.bsky.social joins us to discuss the multiple genres represented by Croatia 🎂, Sweden ♨️, San Marino 🇮🇹, Portugal 🖼️, and Cyprus 🤫 at this year's #Eurovision www.eurowhat.com/263
Culture critic @euny.bsky.social joins us to discuss the multiple genres represented by Croatia 🎂, Sweden ♨️, San Marino 🇮🇹, Portugal 🖼️, and Cyprus 🤫 at this year's #Eurovision www.eurowhat.com/263
April 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This week on the podcast: @euny.bsky.social is here to chat genre-bending, K-pop, and the last 5 songs of the first #Eurovision semifinal!
this was a delightful conversation, DEFINITELY check this one out, folks.
this was a delightful conversation, DEFINITELY check this one out, folks.
Thank you Oliver Wang for interviewing me for the @LAReviewofBooks about the new 2nd edition of The Birth of Korean Cool. Your wicked smaht questions made me also seem smaht. @owang.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lare... lareviewofbooks.org/article/ridi... #hallyu #eunyhong #theBirthOfKoreanCool
Riding the Korean Wave | Los Angeles Review of Books
Oliver Wang interviews Euny Hong about her expanded edition of “The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture.”
lareviewofbooks.org
May 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thank you Oliver Wang for interviewing me for the @LAReviewofBooks about the new 2nd edition of The Birth of Korean Cool. Your wicked smaht questions made me also seem smaht. @owang.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lare... lareviewofbooks.org/article/ridi... #hallyu #eunyhong #theBirthOfKoreanCool
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Next up: @euny.bsky.social with her paper “K-Poppenheimer’s Deadly Toy: How the South Korean Government
Manufactured the K-Pop Industry from Scratch” #PopCon2025
Manufactured the K-Pop Industry from Scratch” #PopCon2025
March 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Next up: @euny.bsky.social with her paper “K-Poppenheimer’s Deadly Toy: How the South Korean Government
Manufactured the K-Pop Industry from Scratch” #PopCon2025
Manufactured the K-Pop Industry from Scratch” #PopCon2025
No joke, today is pub day for the new expanded edition of The Birth of Korean Cool! New chapters on #BTS #Parasite #SquidGame. First pubbed in 2014. I predicted the #KoreanWave and I WAS RIGHT. Buy your copy today!
@PicadorUSA
@PicadorUSA
April 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
No joke, today is pub day for the new expanded edition of The Birth of Korean Cool! New chapters on #BTS #Parasite #SquidGame. First pubbed in 2014. I predicted the #KoreanWave and I WAS RIGHT. Buy your copy today!
@PicadorUSA
@PicadorUSA
I was a very little kid when I saw Superman. Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor marked perhaps the first time I actually understood what the hell the grown-ups meant when they said someone was a good actor. Is this, or is this not, one of the greatest re-interpretations of an iconic character of all time?
February 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I was a very little kid when I saw Superman. Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor marked perhaps the first time I actually understood what the hell the grown-ups meant when they said someone was a good actor. Is this, or is this not, one of the greatest re-interpretations of an iconic character of all time?
ICYMI The city of Paris officially closed its Twitter account. “The goal of this account was for everyone interested in Paris to stay informed. This became complicated, then impossible.” @paris.fr
January 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
ICYMI The city of Paris officially closed its Twitter account. “The goal of this account was for everyone interested in Paris to stay informed. This became complicated, then impossible.” @paris.fr
The women in your business are not ruining things with their female energy, Mark. They're adopting male energy, because *someone* has to bring it when you're in the room.
January 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The women in your business are not ruining things with their female energy, Mark. They're adopting male energy, because *someone* has to bring it when you're in the room.
Me talking about Han Kang's Nobel Prize win for @FRANCE24's @FrancoisF24. Because every day is Throwback Thursday when, like me, one is bad at social media. Look familiar @mitrakalita ? @HanKangOfficial
www.france24.com/en/video/202...
www.france24.com/en/video/202...
Han Kang: Once vilified for 'daring' to air South Korea's 'dirty laundry', now a national treasure
www.france24.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Me talking about Han Kang's Nobel Prize win for @FRANCE24's @FrancoisF24. Because every day is Throwback Thursday when, like me, one is bad at social media. Look familiar @mitrakalita ? @HanKangOfficial
www.france24.com/en/video/202...
www.france24.com/en/video/202...
Inaccurate Movie Summaries, part 17: Flow. Flow is a remake of that Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith, "Time Enough at Last," where the world ends and the loner thinks life is rad and then finds out what's really important. Friends. Lasik surgery. Whatever.
January 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Inaccurate Movie Summaries, part 17: Flow. Flow is a remake of that Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith, "Time Enough at Last," where the world ends and the loner thinks life is rad and then finds out what's really important. Friends. Lasik surgery. Whatever.
I present my latest creation, Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane crochet doll! Specifically, her Smothers Brothers appearance in 1968. I need to point out that the doll is the one on the right.
#graceslick #crochet #amigurumi #jeffersonairplane #whiterabbit #eunyhong
#graceslick #crochet #amigurumi #jeffersonairplane #whiterabbit #eunyhong
January 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I present my latest creation, Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane crochet doll! Specifically, her Smothers Brothers appearance in 1968. I need to point out that the doll is the one on the right.
#graceslick #crochet #amigurumi #jeffersonairplane #whiterabbit #eunyhong
#graceslick #crochet #amigurumi #jeffersonairplane #whiterabbit #eunyhong
I have more Neanderthal DNA than 80% of the population, according to one of those genetic tests, so it stands to reason that one of my fave dishes is l'os à moelle (roasted beef bone marrow)The bistro down the block, Le Parleloup in Paris 15, does a bangup job.
January 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I have more Neanderthal DNA than 80% of the population, according to one of those genetic tests, so it stands to reason that one of my fave dishes is l'os à moelle (roasted beef bone marrow)The bistro down the block, Le Parleloup in Paris 15, does a bangup job.
This 1978 cartoon is how I came to be familiar with the song Puff the Magic Dragon. Trugger warning: Sad dragon #peteryarrowRIP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fyh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fyh...
Puff The Magic Dragon (1978) FULL FEATURE
YouTube video by Dad Goes Fishing
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This 1978 cartoon is how I came to be familiar with the song Puff the Magic Dragon. Trugger warning: Sad dragon #peteryarrowRIP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fyh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fyh...
ok pourquoi personne ne m'a dit ? The Frenchest of all French public intellectuals Bernard Pivot is gone. It was a dream of mine to be a guest on his show, once upon a time. He, France Gall, and Sophie Marceau are the three people who drove me to move to France. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
Bernard Pivot, journaliste, créateur d’« Apostrophes », est mort
La célèbre émission littéraire, qu’il anima de 1975 à 1990 sur Antenne 2, était devenue le rendez-vous incontournable des auteurs et du monde de l’édition. L’ex-président de l’académie Goncourt avait,...
www.lemonde.fr
May 12, 2024 at 5:51 PM
ok pourquoi personne ne m'a dit ? The Frenchest of all French public intellectuals Bernard Pivot is gone. It was a dream of mine to be a guest on his show, once upon a time. He, France Gall, and Sophie Marceau are the three people who drove me to move to France. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
Fine I'll do it but only if I get to talk about Belgian police procedurals that take place in the Ardennes.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
Harvard Struggles To Find Class Day Speaker Less Than 2 Weeks Before Ceremony | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Struggles To Find Class Day Speaker Less Than 2 Weeks Before Ceremony | News | The Harvard Crimson
www.thecrimson.com
May 11, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Fine I'll do it but only if I get to talk about Belgian police procedurals that take place in the Ardennes.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
My latest thing for
@nytopinion, on #PastLives and white people or whatever. Thank you so much Adam Sternbergh and the other amazing mystery editors who made this readable! You are the William Shawn(s) to my Hannah Arendt. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/o...
@nytopinion, on #PastLives and white people or whatever. Thank you so much Adam Sternbergh and the other amazing mystery editors who made this readable! You are the William Shawn(s) to my Hannah Arendt. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/o...
March 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM
My latest thing for
@nytopinion, on #PastLives and white people or whatever. Thank you so much Adam Sternbergh and the other amazing mystery editors who made this readable! You are the William Shawn(s) to my Hannah Arendt. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/o...
@nytopinion, on #PastLives and white people or whatever. Thank you so much Adam Sternbergh and the other amazing mystery editors who made this readable! You are the William Shawn(s) to my Hannah Arendt. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/o...
I made fun of this show but it was part of my reluctant entry into adulthood. I was close to their age and newly in NY. I had Rachel's inability to do anything practical, Monica's anxiety, and Chandler's insecure nihilism. Without Friends my generation would not be able to contextualise a life event
October 29, 2023 at 2:15 PM
I made fun of this show but it was part of my reluctant entry into adulthood. I was close to their age and newly in NY. I had Rachel's inability to do anything practical, Monica's anxiety, and Chandler's insecure nihilism. Without Friends my generation would not be able to contextualise a life event