{"id":60192,"date":"2026-08-05T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=60192"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:51:37","slug":"south-korean-police-raid-starbucks-korea-headquarters-in-latest-twist-over-disastrous-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=60192","title":{"rendered":"South Korean police raid Starbucks Korea headquarters in latest twist over disastrous ad campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The headquarters of Starbucks Korea was raided by South Korean police on Wednesday, as they continue to investigate the coffee chain that faced a nationwide backlash and publicity crisis over a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/19\/business\/starbucks-korea-ceo-fired-tank-tumbles-intl-hnk\">disastrous ad campaign.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Seoul metropolitan police confirmed to CNN they had searched the headquarters in relation to the upcoming Liberation Day next week, a public holiday marking South Korea\u2019s liberation from Japanese colonization during WWII \u2013 but declined to share further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the latest headache for Starbucks in South Korea after an ill-timed ad campaign several months ago sparked public anger, forcing it to apologize and fire an executive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crisis began in May, when Starbucks Korea \u2013 which is licensed to and managed largely by Korean conglomerate Shinsegae Group \u2013 launched a \u201cTank Day\u201d marketing campaign to promote what it called its \u201cTank\u201d line of tumblers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it was unveiled on the same day as Democratization Movement Day, which commemorates the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, when more than 100 civilians were killed during pro-democracy demonstrations led by students during an era of military rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: The headquarters of Starbucks Korea was raided by South Korean police on Wednesday, as they continue to investigate the coffee chain that faced a nationwide backlash and publicity crisis over a\u00a0disastrous ad campaign. The Seoul metropolitan police confirmed to CNN they had searched the headquarters in relation to the upcoming Liberation Day next week, a public holiday marking South Korea\u2019s liberation from Japanese colonization during WWII \u2013 but declined to share further details. It\u2019s the latest headache for Starbucks in South Korea after an ill-timed ad campaign several months ago sparked public anger, forcing it to apologize and fire&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60194,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60192\/revisions\/60194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}