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Starbucks faces South Korean backlash following campaign echoing 1987 massacre
Starbucks is facing backlash in South Korea over a “Tank Day” marketing campaign that evoked the country’s deadly 1980 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. In South Korea, Tank Day commemorates the day the country’s then-military government sent troops and tanks to supress mass rallies f...
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Starbucks faces backlash in South Korea over ‘Tank Day’ campaign
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Starbucks is facing backlash in South Korea over a “Tank Day” marketing campaign that evoked the country’s deadly 1980 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. In South Korea, Tank D...
Starbucks faces South Korean backlash following campaign echoing 1987 massacre
It's a scandal that just won't go away for Starbucks in South Korea. The chairman of the coffee chain's local corporate majority owner was compelled to issue a second public apology in the...
South Korean Starbucks boss apologizes for ad campaign that evoked massacre
South Korean Starbucks' boss apologized again as it faced a backlash over a marketing campaign widely seen as mocking victims of a bloody military crackdown in 1980.
Starbucks Korea’s Tank Day Promotion on a Massacre Anniversary Causes a Political Firestorm
The marketing blunder on South Korea’s most solemn democratic anniversary has reignited a decades-old battle over how the country confronts its authoritarian past.
