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Yes absolutely! We are open to pitches from all!
๐จRAFFLE ALERT๐จ
Weโre 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! ๐๐ซฐ
Graphic for MENTโs double feature on Sept 27: K-Pop Square at LINE Friends LA and Chuseok Festival in San Francisco, with MENTโs logo and airplanes linking the two cities.
๐งจ Itโs a MENT double feature! ๐งจ
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 itโs 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 soundโit 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.
Phone line background image with digital glitch overlay and text that reads, โSubmit to Issue 003โ
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.
Yes!
Currently, issue 3 rate is $100/contribution!
Currently, issue 3 rate is $100/contribution!
Currently, issue 3 rate is $100/contribution!
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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 weโre still buzzing from the amazing panels, connections, and K-pop dance lessons at our Issue 001 launch event! โจ๐ซฐ
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.
๐จTODAY๐จ
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
๐จ 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
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As we lead up to our Issue 001 launch event, we want to continue to celebrate the rich history of Korean Media ๐ฟ๐บ
Today, weโre focusing on #ShippingCulture and its origins in #KPOP.
Have you ever shipped two of your favorite idols?
Read more: mentmagazine.com/issue002
๐จ 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
๐จ 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
Izumoโs 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
๐จ Join us, the BTS Critical Reader, and GYOPO on August 17th in LA to celebrate our first print issue!
โจStop 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 Onewโs solo album undergoes a mixed-media transformation in Izumoโs 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
๐จ Join us, in collaboration with the BTS Critical Reader and GYOPO, on August 17th in LA to celebrate our first print issue!
โจStop 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
Still from Izumoโs mixed media video artwork, โBlame It on My Youthโ (2023).
If the visuals of #KPOP have ever sparked your own creative imagination, donโt 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.
Image by Amber Lee. Adapted from images of โStray Kids Special Zineโ included in Social Path / Super Bowl (Japanese Ver.) limited edition B; Prime Ministers Plane to Fly Inter City (132335129), April 21, 2006, by Sheba_Also 43,000 photos (Wikimedia Commons); and Torn Ripped Wrinkled Damaged Paper Free High Resolution Texture Creative Commons (8077074905), October 11, 2012, by D Sharon Pruitt (Wikimedia Commons).
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From the experience of diaspora to #StrayKids Camille Chong (@camiscribbles.bsky.social) explores the implications of โstraynessโ and how being a #KPOP fan helped her with her Singaporean identity.
When does community inspire us to connect beyond our normal boundaries?
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Multicolored background with web browser window popup that reads, โThe first Korean digital comic to use the vertical โwebtoonโ layout was Sim Seung-hyunโs Pape and Popoโs Memories in 2002. Comics creators who published their works on internet portal sites such as N4 and Comics Today used to create horizontal pages designed to fit the landscape layout of a computer screen. Once the vertical layout appeared, however, it was quickly adopted by artists and is now famously the format preferred by Korean webtoons.
Weโre continuing our celebration of the rich history of Korean media! Today weโre focusing on the evolution of digital comics and the introduction of the vertical โwebtoonโ layout style.
Be sure to check out Issue 002 for more analysis like this and follow for more facts about Korean media history
Image by Amber Lee. Adapted from (Landscape with Marshes), 1898, by De Lancey Gill, born Chester, SC 1859-died Alexandria, VA 1940 (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Goree M. Pellen and Florence Pellen Duffy); Korean Sandals (Chipsin), c. 1950s, Straw, ca. 1950s (Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), image by Daderot, July 4, 2013 (Wikimedia Commons); Sandals, Uniform, School (AM 1999.183.3), ca. 1999(Collection of Auckland Museum Tฤmaki Paenga Hira, 1999.183.3; Wikimedia Commons); and Korean Shoes for Upper-Class Women (Woon-Hye), c. 1880s, Silk, ca. 1880s(Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), image by Daderot, July 4, 2013 (Wikimedia Commons).
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From state repression of the past and present to the quiet power of memorial archives, Yoojin Kim considers how Gwangjuโs memory shapes resistance today. When does history interact with the presentโand when does it get buried beneath it?
Read now at www.mentmagazine.com/issue002/gwangju-memoirs
Image by Amber Lee and Hyo Lee. Adapted from Marry My Husband promotional still, 2024 (tvN, accessed via TMDB) and Red Rose Petals, February 25, 2010, by THOR (Wikimedia Commons).
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From revenge-fueled plot twists to moral tests, Sue Hyon Bae unpacks how cancer in #Kdramas script neoliberal selfhood.
When does suffering empowerโand when does it enforce control?
Read now at www.mentmagazine.com/issue002/rev...
#MarryMyHusband #LifeisBeautiful
Read now at www.mentmagazine.com/issue002/mur...
@dramasoverflowers.bsky.social
Image by Amber Lee. Adapted from The Murderer (alternate title Der Mรถrder), 1914, by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies M.82.288.112, Los Angeles County Museum of Art); Crash Course in Romance promotional still, 2023 (tvN); and Splattered White Paint 1, April 18, 2012, by Downtowngal (Wikimedia Commons).
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Korean murder rom-coms: just a popular #KDRAMA subgenre or also a cultural mirror?
Anisa Khalifa (@anisa.bsky.social) investigates the overlaps between shows like #SuspiciousPartner and #CrashCourseinRomance with real life gender inequality and gender-based violence in South Korea.
