Personal Life
Hong is a Christian, whose grandparents were elders at a Presbyterian church in the South Korean city of Gwangju.
Hong was on the cover of the June 2007 issue of Opera News magazine.
Hong's husband was diagnosed with cancer in December 2007 and died in July 2008. Having cancelled her whole schedule at the time of his diagnosis to care for him, she was away from the stage for two years in mourning. But she finally returned to the stage of the Met as Violetta in La traviata on 13 April 2010. In 2010/11 season of the Met, she sang two parts of French operas - Micaëla in "Carmen" and Juliette in "Roméo et Juliette". And in the 2012/13 season she sang Countess Almaviva in the final performance of "Le nozze di Figaro". She currently lives in Queens, New York with her three children.
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