[KS] Announcing the second issue of MENT, a digital magazine on Korean popular culutre

[Yin Yuan]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of the second issue of MENT, a
digital magazine on Korean popular culture. We release Issue 002 in the
wake of South Korea’s impeachment of former president Yoon Suk Yeol. This
moment of political reckoning—facilitated by mass protests that were
visually and sonically marked by K-pop fan practices—frames our Editors’
Statement and informs the questions that run through this issue. The
issue features a collection of essays, interviews, creative writing, and
mixed-media art.

MENT continues its mission to argue for K-media’s place in our popular and
political cultures writ large. We hold that Korean media can offer insight
into issues of gender, race, capital, labor, geopolitics, and
technology—the very issues at stake in our global moment of political and
social crisis. As we foster a conversation that moves, like Korean media
itself, across borders and into the broader public sphere, we hope to open
up new ways of imagining community and building solidarity.

*Table of Contents for Issue 002:*

*Statement*

“On Noise, Dissonance, and Political Possibility” by MENT Editors Andrea
Acosta and Yin Yuan

*Appointments*

"Re-enchanting Our World: Haejoang Cho on Memory, Hallyu, and Mutual Care”—
Haejoang Cho in conversation with MENT Magazine

"'Reacting to the K: An Interview with Emma Chang”—Emma Chang in
conversation with MENT Magazine

*Arguments*

"The Cold War Ended, and Orion’s Choco Pie Won” by Madeleine Han

“Visibility That Bothers: #LoveInTheBigCity and Brazilian Fan Activism” by
Ligia Prezia Lemos and Mariana Marques de Lima

“K-pop, Sex Work, and Parasocial Intimate Labor” by Adan Jerreat-Poole

"The Rise of the Murder Rom-Com” by Anisa Khalifa

“The Modern South Korean Revenge Fairytale: Women in Cancer and Love” by
Sue Hyon Bae

*Attachments*

“To Where the Flowers Are Blooming: Gwangju’s Literary and Material
Memoirs” by Yoojin Kim

“This isn’t Stray Kids fanfiction, but…” by Camille Chong

“Fan Artist Spotlight: Izumo’s Natural Imperfections”—Izumo in conversation
with MENT Magazine


You can read the second issue at mentmagazine.com/issue002. We invite
submissions for future issues. Please consult the About page (
mentmagazine.com/about) for proposal guidelines.

Questions 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
<https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/alimentary-orientalism/9781684484669>*(Bucknell
UP)
Associate Professor
Department of English
Saint Mary's College of California
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