[KS] Announcing the launch of MENT, a digital magazine on Korean popular culture

[Yin Yuan]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the release of the first issue of MENT (
mentmagazine.com), a
digital magazine on Korean popular culture, edited by Dr. Yin Yuan and
Dr. Andrea Acosta. MENT publishes critical and creative work that
engages with Korean media forms through a variety of cultural, social,
and political perspectives.

Combining intellectual rigor with ardent feeling, MENT desires to bridge
scholarly, fan, and public discourses. Our aim is to bring conversation
on Korean media out of its often-siloed spaces and into the broader
public sphere. We do so in recognition of Korean popular culture’s
increasingly central role in (re)shaping personal narratives, communal
formations, digital networks, and global media paradigms. Our
publication is animated by the point of view that Korean popular culture
offers insight into broader issues of gender, race, capital, labor,
geopolitics, technology, and sociality.

*Table of Contents for Issue 001:*

*Statement*

"MENT: Why Now, Why Ever?" by MENT editors Yin Yuan and Andrea Acosta

*Appointments*

"To ARMY, With Love: An Interview with the Bangtan Remixed Editors" by
MENT Magazine
"'For Our People': An Interview with ARMY for Palestine" by Andrea Acosta

*Arguments*

"The Sensus Communis of the K-Drama" by Steve Choe
"The 'Other' Woman: Rejecting Idealized Femininity in K-Dramas" by
Yegene Lee
"Taemin as Mudang: K-Pop, Queerness, and the Logic of Shamanism" by
Amber Lee
"What Does the K-Wave Mean for Korean American Literature?" by Maddie Kim

*Attachments*

"Notes from a Native Tourist" by Julie Moon
"Lovelyz WoW!: The Idol as Product" (video essay) by Asanti Gemeda
"On Hyunjin, Labor, and Memory" (video artwork) by vvtobbi
"r/hobbydrama [KPOP] DaNSE: the group where a drug scandal wasn't even
the biggest drama in the fandom" (creative fiction) by M. Xinyu Liu

You can read the first issue at mentmagazine.com/issue001. We invite
submissions for future
issues. Please consult the About page (mentmagazine.com/about) for
pitch/proposal guidelines.

Inquiries regarding submission or opportunities for collaboration can be
directed to Dr. Yin Yuan at yy8 at stmarys-ca.edu or editors at mentmagazine.com

Thank you!

Best,
Yin Yuan

-- 
Yin Yuan, Ph.D.
Author of Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the
Edible East (Bucknell UP)
Associate Professor
Department of English
Saint Mary's College of California
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