Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 04/08/2026#BTS and the late night double feature picture show, from RKO…. 060
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 05/04/2026The angel passed over the homes marked with Key lime pie. Which can be made without chametz. Then in the New Testament there’s that thing about Jesus rising on the 3rd day for this pie 010
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Reposting by special demand (literally): reposting by special demand (literally): www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/o... Congrats to the double #Oscars win! Thank you @nytimes.com for upping this again. This thing will never exit the news cyclenytimes.comOpinion | ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is My Kind of Globalism 030
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Oh hell no. Maggie Kang's Oscar speech for #KpopDemonHunters was that "people who look like me" have been invisible and silenced. As if to prove her point an hour later, the orchestra cuts off the male song co-writer for #golden. at least 3 other speeches went over time and were not drowned out. 041
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Also I called this 16 effing years ago in my book The Birth of Korean Cool and therefore I take partial credit for @kpopdemonhunters.bsky.social 052
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Kylie you have no right to look that bored when Koreans are being honored. To quote Jimmy O. Yang, I wouldn't recommend disappointing a Korean #oscars2026 000
Reposted by Euny HongAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Between this and Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin this was the most Final Fantasy X Olympics ever 112220
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 22/02/2026🎼Everybody was #MikhailShaidorov fighting/That cat is fast as lightning🎶 Here I endorse this problematic "Oriental riff." This #olympic gold medalist dressed as a panda literally into the arms of Jackie Chan; plus, Kazakhs are basically Koreans. Half the people in that country look like my dad.youtu.be'Panda’ Shaidorov Steals the Show at the Olympic Figure Skating Gala 🐼⛸️ | #milanocortina2026YouTube video by Olympics 000
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 15/12/2025I love that Stonehenge was incubating in Reiner's mind for years while he was still at All in the Family. His dreams of an ancient people about whom no one knew "who they were or what they were doing" must have seized him with a relentless frenzy until he begged Norman Lear to leave his sitcom. 100
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Please no no let it not be Meathead they’re talking about… 010
Reposted by Euny HongNitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 30/07/2025always 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:slate.comFantastic 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. 192
Reposted by Euny HongTracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 24/08/2025"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. 031
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 04/11/202510 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 020
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 18/08/2025A special thanks to NYT Opinion editor @thiscarlswanson.bsky.social for his vast, vast improvement of the piece! 000
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 18/08/2025So 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...nytimes.comOpinion | ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is My Kind of Globalism 111
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 12/07/20253 vampire movies: Love at First Bite, Interview with a Vampire, Bela Lugosi's Dracula ftw 000
Reposted by Euny HongAdam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Birthrates 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...nytimes.comOpinion | Watching South Korean TV Won’t Make You Want to Have a Baby 083
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Some 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...youtube.comEminem - LOSE YOURSELF (Sung by 331 Movies!)YouTube video by The Unusual Suspect 110
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 19/06/2025My 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...nytimes.comOpinion | Watching South Korean TV Won’t Make You Want to Have a Baby 0103
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Yes, 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 010
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025There you are! I was wondering if anyone I knew was on here. I have not been using this platform enough but I'm going to start. 110
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025(or as many as it takes to cover the first black band you crocheted). Final step: Insert press credentials into band. Gain access everywhere. Your plush animal journalist will never not be taken seriously again. 010
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Make second ribbon around the first ribbon so that there will be a place to stick the press card. You do this by using yarn colour 2 (black, here) and picking up stitches from the bottom of the ribbon, and crocheting in rounds straight up for 5 rows 110
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Keep going in this fashion for about 6 more rounds. Shape by simply smooshing the top of the crown and pinching it in the front and back. I have sewn the pinched bits together but you don't have to do this. 100
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Switch to 2nd yarn color (black) for the ribbon around the drown. Keep crocheting 5 or so more rounds with the 2nd yarn color. Switch back to the 1st yarn color and increase by crocheting st 2st for another round; you will now have 108 stitches. 100
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025When you have about 10 rounds, or 54 stitches in the outermost round (7cm diameter, approx), stop increasing the circle size and keep crocheting for about 10 more rounds. 100
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Use two different-coloured yarns; one for the hat and one for the ribbon around het crown. Yarn color 1 (grey, here): Round 1: Cast on a magic circle with 6 stitches. For r2, crochet 2 stitches in each loop. for r3, st, 2st, repeat. r4: st, st, 2st. Keep increasing till you have 54 stitches. 100
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025You have to know basic crochet to follow this pattern. This is for a plush kitty 20cm long, 17cm high, with a head circumference of 8cm. I used acrylic worsted-weight yarn. I recommond acrylic over wool or cotton; acrylic is easiest to shape as a final product. 100
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Is 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 160
Reposted by Euny HongB-Side @benmsmith.com · 08/04/2025This 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. 042
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Thank 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 #theBirthOfKoreanCoollareviewofbooks.orgRiding the Korean Wave | Los Angeles Review of BooksOliver Wang interviews Euny Hong about her expanded edition of “The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture.” 101
Reposted by Euny HongNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Next 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 071
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 01/04/2025@barnesandnoble.com www.barnesandnoble.com/w/1118481612barnesandnoble.comThe Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture (Expanded Edition)|PaperbackA revised edition of this celebrated cultural history features a new afterword and three new chapters focusing on the global K-pop phenomenon BTS, as well as the Academy Award–winning film Paras... 000
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1250353270/amazon.comThe Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture (Expanded Edition)The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture (Expanded Edition) [Hong, Euny] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture (Expanded Edition) 000
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 01/04/2025No 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 341
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I 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? 110
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 20/01/2025ICYMI 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 030
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The 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. 000
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Me 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...france24.comHan Kang: Once vilified for 'daring' to air South Korea's 'dirty laundry', now a national treasure 010
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Inaccurate 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. 010
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I 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 091
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I 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. 010
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 07/01/2025This 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...youtube.comPuff The Magic Dragon (1978) FULL FEATUREYouTube video by Dad Goes Fishing 111
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 12/05/2024ok 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...lemonde.frBernard Pivot, journaliste, créateur d’« Apostrophes », est mortLa 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,... 010
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 11/05/2024Fine 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...thecrimson.comHarvard Struggles To Find Class Day Speaker Less Than 2 Weeks Before Ceremony | News | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard Struggles To Find Class Day Speaker Less Than 2 Weeks Before Ceremony | News | The Harvard Crimson 020
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 09/03/2024My 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... 020
Euny Hong @euny.bsky.social · 29/10/2023I 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 000
