Korea's antitrust watchdog has no grounds to investigate Starbucks Korea over the coffee chain's controversial marketing campaign allegedly mocking...

Controversial ‘Tank Day’ campaign evoked a 1980 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters

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.

Police are currently fielding multiple criminal complaints against not only executives associated with Starbucks and Shinsegae, but political figures as well

The coffee chain drew backlash with a marketing campaign for a drink tumbler that is widely perceived as mocking those who died for South Korea’s pro-democracy movement.

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…

Korea's antitrust watchdog has no grounds to investigate Starbucks Korea over the coffee chain's controversial marketing campaign allegedly mocking...

Korea's antitrust watchdog has no grounds to investigate Starbucks Korea over the coffee chain's controversial marketing campaign allegedly mocking the 1980s democracy movement.

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

Shinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin publicly apologized for Starbucks Korea’s controversial marketing campaign, which has been accused of justi...

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