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Yin Yuan
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English prof at Saint Mary’s. Research on postcolonial lit and East Asian pop culture. Co-founder and co-editor of @mentmagazine

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Excited to share this interview with Haejoang Cho, whose work on gender, generational change, & everyday survival in S. Korea has been foundational to my thinking.
Woman wearing red and white polka dotted headscarf and yellow dress stands next to a man in a brown suit and a blue tie. Both have somber expressions on their faces. Painting of woman wearing red and white polka dotted headscarf, who stands next to a man in a blue suit and a blue tie. The background is a clay color.
May 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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MENT issue 2 has dropped!! In the wake of South Korea’s martial law crisis, we ask what role Korean pop culture can play in illuminating our shared conditions of precarity. Please give it a read and share widely! 🙏
mentmagazine.bsky.social MENT Magazine @mentmagazine.bsky.social · May 12
MENT Issue 002 is now live at mentmagazine.com/issue002. From the Gwangju Uprising to the recent protests against Yoon Suk Yeol, from murder rom-coms and cancer narratives to When Life Gives You Tangerines, from choco pies to K-pop light sticks, from Hallyu idols to webcam models

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May 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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🚨 ISSUE 002 IS ON THE WAY! 🚨

Get ready for new in-depth analyses of Korean pop culture. Curious about what revenge-driven K-dramas like #marrymyhusband say about our current neoliberal landscape? Stay tuned for a new article from Sue Hyon Bae.

#ment #kdramas
March 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Required reading as you prepare for Taemin’s world tour 🥰 #TAEMIN_WORLD_TOUR #EphemeralGaze
mentmagazine.bsky.social MENT Magazine @mentmagazine.bsky.social · Feb 13
Amber Lee explores the shamanic influences on Taemin’s gender performance in “Taemin as Mudang: K-Pop, Queerness, and the Logic of Shamanism.”

Read the full essay in MENT Magazine Issue 001: www.mentmagazine.com/issue001/tae...

#kpop #taemin #ment
Olive green popup window over art by Amber Lee. On popup window is text from Lee’s piece in MENT Issue 001: “[Taemin’s] work blends the globally and commercially popular with the indigenous folk popular, challenging multiple binaries and paradigms in an accessible way and with a light touch. Taemin’s performance does not only create ambiguities between male and female, East and West, and future and past, but also leverages qualities from each to best communicate his Korean narrative to as many people as possible.”
February 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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How do K-dramas like Love Alarm make emotions public and invite us to feel alongside their characters?

Steve Choe breaks it down in MENT Magazine Issue 001: www.mentmagazine.com/issue001/sen...

#kdrama #LoveAlarm #mentmagazine
February 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Scandal, disbandment, endless discourse—will K-pop fandom ever change?

M. Xinyu Liu dives in with “r/hobbydrama [KPOP] DaNSE,” out now in MENT Issue 001: www.mentmagazine.com/issue001/rho...

#ment #kpop
Image by Amber Lee. Adapted from Robert Delaunay, Political Drama (1914) (National Gallery of Art, Gift of the Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, Inc.) and “TVXQ in Paris France” (2007) (fan-taken picture, Wikimedia Commons).
February 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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The ment (멘트) in a K-pop concert refers to a moment of informal address, an idol’s direct turn to an audience. Our title invokes this mode of speech for the unanticipated lines of thought it makes possible—the spontaneity of the ad-lib, the exciting potential of going off-script
#kpop #kdrama #ment
January 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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MENT is now on Bluesky! Follow us for critical + creative engagements with Korean pop culture 🎉😊 Our inaugural issue close reads #kdrama, #kpop, and diasporic lit through lenses of gender, fan activism, labor, tech, sexuality, and more. Read now at mentmagazine.com/issue001
January 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM