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.

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! 🙏

🚨 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

Required reading as you prepare for Taemin’s world tour 🥰 #TAEMIN_WORLD_TOUR #EphemeralGaze

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

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

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

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