HYBE and ADOR have been in extensive conflict in the past few days, which has led to rising tensions between the two agencies. Amid the feud, ILLIT’s creative director has posted an Instagram story that could possibly be directed at ADOR’s CEO, Min Hee Jin.
On April 25, 2024, ILLIT’s creative director, Heo Se Ryun, shared a picture on Instagram’s story feature, which has led to speculation that it has more meaning than meets the eye. Read More...
Plagiarism is a well-known problem in academia and creative fields, especially in an age when text is so easy to cut and paste. It is not, however, usually associated with judges. But concerns have been raised in several parts of the common law world about judges lifting large amounts of text from lawyers’ submissions and using them in their judgments. This has, understandably, been widely recognised as a bad practice. Last week, a court judgment revealed that a Hong Kong judge, Mr Justice Wilson Chan Ka-shun, had copied verbatim more than 98 per cent of the plaintiff’s arguments in an intellectual property ruling he delivered in 2021. Read More...
“It does have a soothing and relaxing effect,” he explains. “When we cry, our heart rate and breathing slow down a little and we start to calm down. We might even experience a mood boost after a good cry. Crying is useful for helping people release and express their suppressed or repressed emotions.”
There are a few studies that appear to support the emotional and physiological benefits of crying. In his well-known 1981 study, “tear expert” Dr William Frey, a biochemist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, found that emotional tears – those shed in response to an emotion – contain stress hormones and other chemicals that build up in the body while we are under stress, and help to rid us of them. Read More...
