[Commlist] MENT issue 2 published

The second issue of MENT, a digital magazine on Korean popular culture, 
is now out! 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.

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 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 
<http://mentmagazine.com/issue002>. 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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