YK (Chora) Jung is an educator, writer, artist, musician, translator, and simultaneous interpreter currently based in Seoul, South Korea. She is also a polyglot (native in English and Korean, fluent in French, conversational in Russian and Spanish, learning Greek, German, Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and always hungry to learn more)!
A self-styled ‘citizen of the world,’ YK grew up surrounded by sunwarmed raspberry bushes and seashorn redwood sequoias in Washington State, USA. She later returned to the Korean peninsula to study French at Hanyoung Foreign Language High School before enrolling in Underwood International College at Yonsei University. There she double majored in PSIR (Political Science and International Relations) and History, spending a scholarship year abroad to continue her studies at Sciences-Po Paris in France.
After pursuing her Masters in modern Korean intellectual history with a specialization in 1920’s-1930’s socialist and anarchist thought, YK left school to work as a translator, writer, and activist for a number of local and international organizations and media outlets including CBC, Bloomberg, and the United Nations.
YK now works primarily as a freelance tutor, translator, and simultaneous interpreter under her given name. She currently resides in Seoul, South Korea. In her free time, she can be found taking long walks along the glittering Han river towards sunset or jamming to the newest psychedelic electropop dreamcore releases at last-bastion alt-scene meccas in Hongdae, Haebangchon, or Euljiro.
She also paints and exhibits her artwork while writing poetry, stories, and music under the moniker Chora Chorion. Her first Korean-language short story as Chora Chorion, “смерть, or the Death Hymnal,” was published in the 2021 edition of Hysterian magazine, and her English language poetry has been featured in Last Stanza Poetry Journal. Her ep album “Te,” which can be heard on chora-chorion.bandcamp.com, was included in the selection of “Best of 2022 – Sounds from the Korean Underground.”
As of 2025, she is currently touching up the manuscript of her first full-length novel, “Wishdom Androidocene.”
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