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Yin Yuan

@yinyuan.bsky.social

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 · 21/08/2026

Welcome, members of ENGL 386! Please follow this list (and “pin to home”) to see posts from your classmates. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Yin Yuan @yinyuan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

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.

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Yin Yuan @yinyuan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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! 🙏

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MENT Magazine @mentmagazine.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨 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

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Yin Yuan @yinyuan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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

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MENT Magazine @mentmagazine.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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

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MENT Magazine @mentmagazine.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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

Image by Amber Lee. Adapted from Robert Delaunay, Political Drama (1914) (National Gallery of Art, Gift of the Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, Inc.) and “TVXQ in Paris France” (2007) (fan-taken picture, Wikimedia Commons).

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MENT Magazine @mentmagazine.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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

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Yin Yuan @yinyuan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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

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Issue 001 — MENT Magazine

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