[Commlist] first issue of MENT (a digital magazine on Korean popular culture) published

We are pleased to announce the release of the first issue of MENT, 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:

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 
<http://mentmagazine.com/issue001>. We invite submissions for future 
issues. Please consult the About page (mentmagazine.com/about 
<http://mentmagazine.com/about>) for proposal guidelines.

Questions can be directed to Dr. Yin Yuan at (yy8 /at/ stmarys-ca.edu) 
<mailto:(yy8 /at/ stmarys-ca.edu)> or (editors /at/ mentmagazine.com) 
<mailto:(editors /at/ mentmagazine.com)>


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