Euny Hong is the author of The Birth of Korean Cool and a journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and the Financial Times. A self-described ¿nunchi ninja¿, at age twelve she moved with her family from suburban Chicago to South Korea, not knowing Korean, and within a year was at the top of her class ¿ thanks to her nunchi. She divides her time between New York and Paris and is fluent in English, Korean, French, German ¿ and nunchi.