Grace Jung

Grace Jung (정현주, born February 20, 1987) is a Korean American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and filmmaker. She is the author of the novel Deli Ideology, about a college graduate working in a delicatessen during the recession. She hosts K-Drama School podcast. Grace's first non-fiction book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is forthcoming at Running Press.

In 2016, her translation of 벌레 이야기 by Yi Chong-jun was published in Two Stories from Korea: "The Wounded" and "The Abject". Jung has also translated a collection of select short stories by Kim Tongin which was published by Honford Star in 2017 entitled Sweet Potato. Jung was born in Busan, South Korea, and immigrated to Brooklyn, New York in 1992. She earned her B.A. in English Literature at Pace University. She has a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA. She is a former Fulbright Scholar.