Minu Park( minupark0@gmail.com ) and Chee-Hann Wu ( cheehann.wu@gmail.com ) Preface: Why This Journal Exists This journal began as a necessity. The piece you are about to read—co-written across Korea and Taiwan, across performance and media—was told it did not quite belong. More precisely: an editor at an online platform (on media, performance, and popular culture) imagined a different home for it than the one we carried in mind. We revised in good faith, clarifying our argum