Grace Jung is a stand-up comedian, writer, filmmaker, scholar and podcaster. She is the author of K-Drama School with appearances on NPR, The Bechdel Cast, The SteeBeeWeeBee Show, They Call Us Bruce and season 4 of The Joe Schmo Show on TBS.

Grace and her work are featured in Time, Publishers Weekly, Asymptote, The Economist, NBC, Quartz, Bustle, LA Review of Books, Salon, Angry Asian Man, Hyphen Magazine, The Korea Times, The Korea Daily, and more. Her literary works are published in The Offing Magazine, Literary Hub and more.

Grace is an internationally touring stand-up comedian and a regular at The Hollywood Improv. She was named Comic-of-the-Week on the Jackie and Laurie Show, and featured at the Flyover Comedy Festival, DC Comedy Festival, and Don’t Tell Comedy. Grace performed at historic clubs such as The Comedy Store, Caroline’s on Broadway, The Ice House, The Laugh Factory, Zanies and Comedy Underground.

Grace hosts the weekly comedy podcast K-Drama School which combines K-drama facts, analysis, history and theory, featuring comedians. It is available on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube.

Grace’s award-winning short story Billo was adapted into an animated film that won the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures award in 2009. Grace’s directorial debut J&S Auto was an official selection at the 2022 Maryland Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival, and more. Grace produced the feature documentary A-Town Boyz (2023) which is available on Amazon Prime Video. She writes screenplays, teleplays and books regularly.

Grace is a former Fulbright scholar and a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize. Grace was born in Busan, South Korea and raised in New York. She has an MA and PhD in Film and TV Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her academic works are published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. She specializes in Korean television, film, gender/queerness and clown theory.