She is the culture correspondent on Vice News Tonight on HBO and was previously a columnist at Wired and Allure magazines as well as a freelance writer.

[3] She attended a large public high school in a suburb of San Antonio,[2] then college at the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in Textile and Apparel.

[2] She then worked at XXL and Hip Hop Soul before becoming founding editor-in-chief of Missbehave, a Brooklyn-based alternative magazine for young women.

[2] Choi has drawn notice for her reporting and essays on a wide range of topics, including teen use of social media,[10] her relationship with her mom,[11] music,[2] life as an ex-pat,[2] and fashion.

[20] Notable guests include journalist Jenna Wortham, porn actress Asa Akira, and comedian Joel Kim Booster.

[24] In 2014, Choi published a collection of essays as a Kindle single called, Oh, Never Mind, which describes, among other topics, her decision to leave New York.

In a review for The New Yorker, Hua Hsu said that while the book contained some standard self-help fare, "there's ultimately something goofy and uplifting about it all, a warm generosity that makes Khaled someone whose success you can't begrudge.

[28] Writing for Entertainment Weekly, David Canfield said in Emergency Contact, Choi "vividly realizes Korean-American culture and explores microaggressions on a sharply recognizable level...weav[ing] these experiences into a narrative rife with witty banter and steamy romantic chemistry; the YA frame doesn't push the more challenging material to the margins, but rather renders it naturalistically potent.