After ‘Tank Day’ furore, Starbucks Korea to shut stores for history lessons

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Starbucks Korea to give staff history training after backlash over marketing campaign Coffee chain to hold ‘historical awareness’ training after backlash against marketing campaign that evoked 1980 military crackdown. Starbucks stores in South Korea will close early next week so employees can receive history instruction after a botched marketing campaign triggered a public backlash, the US coffee chain’s local operator says. The move comes after Starbucks Korea provoked a furore last month with a marketing campaign that evoked one of the most painful chapters in the country’s march to democracy.