The NMC welcomes Shutterstock advocacy alongside other major news enterprises for freedom of the press, shaping public policy and advancing independent editorial coverage NEW YORK , July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK ), a leading global creative platform offering full-service solutions, high-quality content, and creative workflow solutions for brands, businesses a...

GIBRALTAR , July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thalex, a trading platform offering stablecoin-settled crypto options and futures, announced it has closed its Series A funding round of EUR 7 .5 million. Among the participants are Bitfinex, Bitstamp, Flow Traders, IMC, QCP and Wintermute. These strategic investors will support the company's ambition to enable on-exchange trading of crypto derivative...

Baekho, formerly of the boy band NU’EST, will meet his fans in Seoul next week. He is holding three fan meet events from July 15 under the title “Baekation.” The event marks his upcoming birthday as well. The performer has been appearing in a series of musicals -- “Midnight Sun,” Altar Boyz” and “Equal” -- since the five-piece act disbanded in March. He also sang a song that was featur...

Since the global K-pop chart was given a new name, the association’s annual Gaon Chart Music Awards has also changed its title to Circle Chart Music Awards. The event is set to take place in January next year. A new award for being environmentally-friendly will be created. In addition to the KMCA officials, Super Junior’s Leeteuk, pop culture critic Jung Duk-hyun and KDI School of public policy ...

This year’s Sinchon Water Gun Festival, which had been scheduled for two days starting July 30, was canceled by the Seodaemun-gu Office on Wednesday, according to Heyway, the main organizer of the event. Jointly sponsored by the city of Seoul, Seodaemun-gu Office and Sinchon Merchants’ Association, the Sinchon Water Gun Festival attracted over 1 million cumulative participants from 2013 to 2019....

Posco International said Thursday that the construction of an electric vehicle parts manufacturing plant in Mexico has begun to expand its business in the fast-growing sector, the company said Thursday. Located in Ramos Arizpe in the state of Coahuila in northeastern Mexico, the plant is set to be its first factory in North America. The construction of the plant will be completed within the firs...

“All the cities that Frieze is in, they were looking for cities that have tremendous appreciation of culture,” said Frieze Seoul Director Patrick Lee. “Seoul is filled with amazing artists -- also an amazing collector scene. It is such a dynamic city in terms of culture. I can say the response of Frieze coming to Seoul is tremendous globally.” Frieze is a London-based contemporary art magazine c...

South Korean discount chain Homeplus said Thursday that it has carried out various marketing efforts by setting “Return” as the keyword that best describes its corporate activities in the first half. “To celebrate us returning to normalcy, Homeplus prepared for the change and made large-scale investments in the first half” a Homeplus official said. Return is also a term meant to encompass the id...

Women and doctors still navigate murky legal waters when it comes to abortion in Korea, despite the practice having been decriminalized over a year ago. The ban on abortion was ruled unconstitutional in April 2019, but the National Assembly has failed to meet its deadline -- which expired on the last day of 2020 -- to make new laws to reflect the changes. As of Jan. 1 last year, abortion was no...

“The Roundup,” a Korean action comedy that topped 10 million admissions in local theaters, will not be screened in Vietnam, officially because the film is considered “too violent.” Looking to distribute the film in the Southeast Asian country, Korea’s leading entertainment company Lotte Entertainment had applied for film certification for “The Roundup” from the Vietnamese Film Department, an org...

A letter of apology will have a smaller impact in court, beginning in October this year, according to the Sentencing Commission, an independent agency affiliated with the Supreme Court, Thursday. An apology letter is a widely used measure in court, through which defendants can show that they are sorry for their offending behavior and fully understand the seriousness of their wrongdoings. Howeve...

South Korea’s current account swung back into the black in May from a deficit the previous month that snapped 23 months of surplus booked since May 2020, but the latest surplus of $3.86 million marked a fall from a year earlier, preliminary data from the Bank of Korea showed Thursday. Soaring coal, oil and gas import costs was the reason Asia’s fourth-largest economy, which heavily relies on imp...

The future of the Korean Peninsula in the 21st century is likely to be linked to events unfolding in North Korea, according to professor Andrei Lankov at Kookmin University. The North continues to be an existential threat to South Korea (and vice versa). Nearly 70 years of calm, and generations without memories of the war (or even links with the wartime generation), have largely numbed the collec...

South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in handling North Korea’s missile provocations, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday. In his visit to the Southeast Asian country, Park also met with his Singaporean counterpart, Vivian Balakrishnan, and Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong on Wednesday to exchan...