Les cafés des Starbucks en Corée du Sud se vident. Des appels au boycott sont énoncés et les ventes sont en chute. En cause, une campagne publicitaire générée par IA et qui rouvre un trauma national.

Coffee chain has seen 'very significant' drop in sales after campaign that evoked crackdown, local operator says.

Starbucks Korea revealed on Tuesday a series of mishaps leading to its heavily criticised "Tank Day" promotion, including the use of AI to develop the campaign, which it said…

A lack of sensitivity toward one of the country’s defining pro-democracy movements, along with a broken approval chain that failed to screen for po...

Starbucks Korea faces backlash and sales decline over controversial ‘Tank Day' campaign tied to Gwangju Uprising.

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Le groupe Shinsegae, opérateur de Starbucks en Corée du Sud, s’est excusé après le tollé provoqué par une publicité sur le soulèvement de Gw

SEOUL, May 26 — Starbucks Korea revealed on Tuesday a series of mishaps leading to its heavily criticised “Tank Day” promotion, including the use of AI to develop the...

Retail tycoon Chung Yong-jin, chairman of the Shinsegae Group which owns Starbucks Korea, issued a second apology in two weeks on Tuesday as the public outcry over the coffee…

Les cafés des Starbucks en Corée du Sud se vident. Des appels au boycott sont énoncés et les ventes sont en chute. En cause, une campagne publicitaire générée par IA et qui rouvre…

Chung Yong-jin, presidente do Shinsegae, grupo controlador da rede no país, pediu desculpas publicamente e apelou para que consumidores não direcionem a indignação aos…

La publicité évoquant la sanglante répression du soulèvement prodémocratie en 1980 sème l’émoi dans la population.

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…

Payments at Starbucks Korea plunged more than 26 percent in just one week, industry data showed Wednesday, after a controversial promotional event...

SEOUL, May 27 — Starbucks Korea’s sales have taken a sharp hit after backlash over a promotional campaign accused of mocking one of South Korea’s darkest chapters in modern...

Starbucks Korea is facing one of the biggest crises in its history after a marketing campaign triggered accusations that it mocked South Korea’s historic democr

Starbucks Korea’s recent marketing blunder, seen as mocking the country’s democracy movements of the 1980s and leading to widespread public outrage...

Figures show transactions falling by over 8 billion won (US$5.3 million) and app downloads declining