M A S T H E A D
EDITORS
Andrea Acosta
Yin Yuan
FICTION EDITOR
Lilly Lu
ART DIRECTOR
Amber Lee
GRAPHIC DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA
Meagan Lesser
S U B M I T
WE ARE LOOKING FOR
+ Experimental work that blends
the critical and the personal
+ Hybrid genres
+ Readings of media texts, genres, and industries through the frameworks of sociology and political economy
+ The politics of K-media and K-stars
+ The communities created through and around K-media
+ Transnational and diasporic perspectives on Korean media:
critiques, reinventions, some secret third thing
+ Connections between Korean popular culture and other forms of Asian media
+ How Korean popular culture moves through and intervenes in a broader public sphere
+ Smaller K-pop groups, K-dramas we’re sleeping on, indie artists, and alternative paradigms of the “popular”
+ Experimental multimedia and video works
+ Fan reflections
+ Fan art
// Pitch us at // editors@mentmagazine.com
// Check out this document for pitch guidelines //
S U B M I T
WE ARE LOOKING FOR
+ Hybrid genres
+ Experimental work that blends the critical and the personal
+ The politics of K-media
+ The politics of K-stars
+ Readings of media texts, genres, and industries through the frameworks of sociology and political economy
+ The communities created through and around K-media
+ Transnational and diasporic perspectives on Korean media:
critiques, reinventions, some secret third thing
+ Connections between Korean popular culture and other forms of Asian media
+ How Korean popular culture moves through and intervenes in a broader public sphere
+ Smaller K-pop groups, K-dramas we’re sleeping on, indie artists, and alternative paradigms of the “popular”
+ Fan reflections
+ Fan art
+ Experimental multimedia and video works
// Pitch us at // editors@mentmagazine.com
// Check out this document for pitch guidelines //
P L E A S E, N O M O R E
× K-media as westernized commodity
× Routine analyses of how/why BTS, Squid Game, Parasite became popular in the US (but we are open to experimental approaches)
× Hallyu as soft power
× Essentialist explications of “han,” “noonchi,” etc.
× Readings that do not go beyond single texts