Eun Young Chough is a graduate journalism student at New York University. She was born in Seoul, South Korea but moved with her family to the United States as a baby. She lived in California, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia before returning to South Korea when she was 10. She graduated from Sogang University in 2007 with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism. She has interned for Larry King Live, Talk Radio News Service in Washington DC, and the Joongang Daily in Seoul.