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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 mentmagazine.com

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Yin Yuan@yinyuan.bsky.social · last yr.

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.
MENT Magazine@mentmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

If #WhenLifeGivesYouTangerines moved you with its depictions of Jeju everyday life, don’t miss our interview with acclaimed feminist and anthropologist Haejoang Cho. Professor Cho reflects on postwar Korea, the rise of Hallyu, and how fans might “gather and start activities to save the world.”

Image by Amber Lee. Adapted from screenshot of “The Real Aesoons are here! A Reaction Video to When Life Gives You Tangerines by the Jeju Painting Grandmothers Who Have Long Captured Jeju in Their Art” (translated title), 2025, by Netflix Korea (YouTube); St. Ives: Cornwall, 1883-1884, by James McNeill Whistler (National Museum of Asian Art, Gift of Charles Lang Freer); and Untitled (Landscape), ca. 1938, by Arthur Dove, born Canandaigua, NY 1880-died Huntington, NY 1946 (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation).
Yin Yuan@yinyuan.bsky.social · last yr.

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! 🙏

MENT Magazine@mentmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

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 1/2

MENT Magazine@mentmagazine.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

Yin Yuan@yinyuan.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

Issue 001 — MENT Magazine

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MENT Magazine@mentmagazine.bsky.social · 2y ago

MENT is a K-media magazine that challenges the genre and disciplinary boundaries long since broken by Korean popular culture. MENT provides social, cultural, and political perspectives on the Korean media we love, from academics, fans, and everyone in between at www.mentmagazine.com #kpop #kdrama