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Updated: 2026-07-28
- Posted by ITTA on 2026-07-28
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A Preemptive Declaration That Traverses Boundaries and Strikes Through Worn-Out Dichotomies: Moon Hoyoung's Never Mind
Never Mind (Jeonbu Chwiso), the debut essay collection by Moon Hoyoung (Hoyoung)—a Korean-English literary translator and host of the podcast Wenmanhamyeon Mallo Hae ("If At All Possible, Use Your Words")—is a captivating work that defiantly strikes through the rigid, dichotomous norms imposed by the world. Having first established a literary presence as a contributor to literary journals, Moon uses this book to "Never Mind"—the very standards that once constrained him—and to preemptively stake claim to new territories of possibility.
The most conspicuous virtue of this work lies unequivocally in its avant-garde sensibility. The author refuses to suture his medical transition, which began in his thirties, into a seamless chronological narrative or to romanticize it as a tear-laden saga of triumph over adversity. Instead, he captures, in their raw and unvarnished state, the fragmentary temporalities he has lived through: the fleeting silhouette of being incompletely understood by family; the moments of self-fissure endured before colleagues; the bodily collisions in cramped rooms and open streets, in the clubs of Itaewon. Declaring to a society that demands a singular, coherent identity that "within the being called 'I,' there exist multiple selves and companions," he achieves an avant-garde aesthetics of transgression and dissonance.
Another central theme pervading the work is the intersection of translation and transition. As the author confesses, "In retrospect, it was through the process of translation that I first began to transition." His identity as a translator—one who traverses the borders of language, from poetry to BL webtoons—resonates in perfect correspondence with his life as a transgender person who dismantles the boundaries of gender. As the shared prefix trans- ("to cross over") suggests, the act of reconstituting a sentence from a source language to fit the world of a target language overlaps profoundly with the sublime process of translating and transitioning one's own body and mind beyond the limits of an assigned physiology and prescribed norms, producing a resonance of remarkable depth.
The reception among readers and on social media platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) has been fervent. Readers have praised the book as "the perfect antidote" for a world that cannot tolerate ambiguity. While dissecting discrimination and hatred with the compound vision of an insect's eye, Moon never relinquishes his buoyant, multidimensional humor and tenacious attachment to life—much as he and his fellow hosts cry out "Bless everything!" (jeonbu chukbok) on their podcast. It is precisely this duality that has earned the broad empathy of a wide readership.
Never Mind transcends the boundaries of a mere intimate personal confession; it is a preemptive work that extends, willingly and without reservation, a hand of solidarity to those who have been placed outside the perimeter of normality. Moon Hoyoung—a writer who blurs the borders between female and male, body and mind, Korean and English, and who has chosen to become at once his own demiurge and his own jester. For all those who linger at the margins, unable to plant their feet firmly on solid ground, this book will stand as a luminous milestone of liberation—one that invites them to tremble together and to venture forth onto paths as yet unknown.
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