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Starbucks Korea CEO resigns over ad evoking massacre of pro-democracy protesters

‘Tank Day’ event causes outrage with ‘malicious mockery’ of deadly crackdown during dictatorship era The chief executive of Starbucks in South Korea has been fired after the company ran a promotional event using

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Starbucks Korea CEO resigns over ad evoking massacre of pro-democracy protesters‘Tank Day’ event causes outrage with ‘malicious mockery’ of deadly crackdown during dictatorship era The chief executive of Starbucks in South Korea has been fired after the company ran a promotional event using
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