[3] Her third book, The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Success and Happiness, was published by Penguin Random House in 2019.
[4][5] Her books have been translated into 18 languages, including French, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Italian, German, Portuguese (standard and Brazilian), Indonesian, Thai, and Chinese.
[6] Hong was a senior columnist for the U.S. edition of the Financial Times, where she wrote a weekly television column and other articles on culture.
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.
Hong has been diagnosed with type II bipolar disorder, and had been married and divorced twice by the age of 33.