🧨 General orders for Issue 3 now open. 🧨 Issue 003 is about the pressures & potentials of Hallyu bodies on screen and behind the scenes: idol bodies, dancing bodies, animated bodies, injured bodies, military bodies, laboring bodies, diasporic bodies, fan bodies.

Come hang out with MENT at Berkeley tomorrow! Limited copies of MENT Issue 003 print available. Plus conversations + hands-on lab about the role of Korean pop culture in our everyday life. RSVP or just stop by! More details here: www.mentmagazine.com/events/archi...

Archiving Slow Resistance: Korean Popular Culture and Everyday Care — MENT Magazine

In a moment marked by burnout, financial strain, and racialized precarity, what does Korean pop culture make possible? This event brings together scholars, artists, writers, and fans to explore how so...

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Archiving Slow Resistance brings together scholars, artists, writers, and fans to explore how K-drama, K-pop, and Hallyu fandoms affect ordinary people in their everyday lives. Coming to you from UC Berkeley on 4/29!

Join MENT at UC Berkeley on 4/29 (5:15-8pm) for Archiving Slow Resistance: Korean Popular Culture and Everyday Care, a public event on K-pop, K-drama, fandom, precarity, and everyday survival. [Post 2] Free and open to the public. Details + RSVP here: www.mentmagazine.com/events/archi...

Last day to preorder MENT Issue 003!! Strong feelings about K-media, hot takes with stakes, fan spaces that build things, glitchy bodies, songs with history, screens with agendas, and essays that know what the hell they’re talking about. Print edition only. www.mentmagazine.com/store/p/ment...

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Pre-order the print edition of MENT Issue 003, a Korean pop culture magazine featuring essays, interviews, artwork, and experimental forms. Local pickups available in Berkeley and Los Angeles; shipped...

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What happens to a body when a system tries to make it readable? Issue 003 explores that question across choreography, platforms, visual codes, military spectacle, cinematic frames, fan archives, and diasporic routes.

연조 reflects on how her mother Bang Uhe Kyung’s anti-authoritarian songs in 1970s South Korea shape diasporic belonging and resistance in the present. Christina Ferraro traces how Nam June Paik’s once-futuristic media aesthetics return in K-pop as stylized retro citation.

MENT Issue 003 preorders are open now through April 8. In “Stay a While: On Lee Chang-dong’s Pursuit of a Moral Style for the 21st Century,” Ethan J. Rosenberg examines Lee Chang-dong’s oeuvre to consider what a camera can do when it does not cut away.

MENT Issue 003 preorders are open now through April 8. Robyn Hope shows how injury and absence glitch the machine of K-pop performance, exposing the precarious interdependencies that choreography usually smooths over.

In “The Whole Internet Is Fandom Now,” Abigail De Kosnik reflects on the increasingly fan-like logics of digital life. Labor organizer & K-pop fan Katie Doan also asks how fan communities mobilize and how storytelling can translate into concrete political action.

Demons and hunters, idols and screens, songs that extract and songs that save: what conditions does KPop Demon Hunters spotlight? Issue 003 takes the film as a point of departure for asking what our contemporary media fantasies make visible, and what they still obscure.

Print preorders for MENT Issue 003 are open through April 8 at www.mentmagazine.com/store/p/ment... MENT exists to slow down viral culture, ground media objects in their historical contexts, and create the conditions for extended reflection.

MENT Issue 003 is available in print. Preorders now open and will close on April 8: www.mentmagazine.com/store/p/ment... Beginning with #KPopDemonHunters, this issue lingers in the tension between animated surfaces and embodied life.

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Pre-order the print edition of MENT Issue 003, a Korean pop culture magazine featuring essays, interviews, artwork, and experimental forms. Local pickups available in Berkeley and Los Angeles; shipped...

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🚨RAFFLE ALERT🚨 We’re giving away an #ATEEZ album and autographed postcard by #Wooyoung or #Yunho to THREE lucky winners. See here for details on how to enter: linktr.ee/mentmagazine Enter by October 6th. Good luck! 🍀🫰

🧨 It’s a MENT double feature! 🧨 This Sat 9/27, find us in 2 cities at once: the Bay Area Chuseok Festival in SF (11am-4pm)+ Line Friends K-Pop Square in LA (11am-6pm). Come meet our editors + grab a copy of our limited edition inaugural issue before it’s gone.

At MENT, we believe that attending to silenced histories can transform the present. If that resonates, join our conversation. Pitch us for issue 003 by 9/30. See detailed pitch guidelines here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #KPOP #WritingCommmunity

#KPOP is more than just sound–it tells stories of selfhood, culture, and connection. How might collage art help us uncover these layers and build new ones around the idols we love? Mixed media artist izumo explores this in MENT Issue 002. Learn more at mentmagazine.com/issue002.

Pitch your ideas for Issue 003 now. See pitch guidelines here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... For pitches, please note we encourage full draft submissions but continue to accept shorter pitches as well.

At MENT, we believe that adoration carries agency, and fandom can function as critique. If that resonates, join our conversation. Pitch us for Issue 003 by 9/30. See detailed pitch guidelines here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

One week later, and we’re still buzzing from the amazing panels, connections, and K-pop dance lessons at our Issue 001 launch event! ✨🫰 Thank you to everyone who came out and created with us. Swipe through to relive some of the best moments here, and stay tuned for more exciting things to come.

🚨TODAY🚨 Join us at dublab LA to celebrate our first print issue. The issue will be available for purchase exclusively at this event! This event will also include conversational panels, a #KPOP dance workshop led by Team BUK, and boba! givebutter.com/bangtanremixed

🚨 Join us THIS WEEKEND on August 17th at dublab LA to celebrate our first print issue. The issue will be available for purchase exclusively at this event, so reserve your spot now: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed

As we lead up to our Issue 001 launch event, we want to continue to celebrate the rich history of Korean Media 💿📺 Today, we’re focusing on #ShippingCulture and its origins in #KPOP. Have you ever shipped two of your favorite idols? Read more: mentmagazine.com/issue002

🚨 Join us on August 17th at dublab LA to celebrate our first print issue. The issue will be available for purchase exclusively at this event, so reserve your spot now: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed

🚨 Join us on August 17th at dublab LA to celebrate our first print issue. The issue will be available for purchase exclusively at this event, so reserve your spot now: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed

Izumo’s mixed media art recasts the dynamism and color of #TAEYONG into a new visual language. Check out this and other artworks in MENT Issue 002 available to read now: mentmagazine.com/issue002

🚨 Join us, the BTS Critical Reader, and GYOPO on August 17th in LA to celebrate our first print issue! ✨Stop by for boba, snacks, panels, a dance workshop, and the opportunity to purchase our inaugural issue in print! RSVP now to save your spot: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed

#Shinee Onew’s solo album undergoes a mixed-media transformation in Izumo’s artwork. How do fanworks re-interpret K-pop media in new directions? How might K-pop offer a new visual language for our modes of self-expression? Watch this video and others like it at mentmagazine.com/issue002

🚨 Join us, in collaboration with the BTS Critical Reader and GYOPO, on August 17th in LA to celebrate our first print issue! ✨Stop by for boba, snacks, panels, a dance workshop, and the opportunity to purchase our inaugural issue in print! RSVP now to save your spot: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed

If the visuals of #KPOP have ever sparked your own creative imagination, don’t miss our conversation with mixed media artist Izumo. Join us as we reflect on artistic growth, fan art as resistance, and why imperfections in art still matter in the age of AI.