Korea: Police raid Starbucks offices over 'Tank Day' fiasco
Starbucks Korea faced major backlash after being accused of trivializing a 1980 massacre. Police say their internal investigation was not thorough enough.
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Police raided Starbucks' nation headquarters in South Korea on Wednesday, the company confirmed, after a controversial promotional event led to large protests and boycotts of the coffee chain across the country.
"The Seoul police raided the headquarters of Starbucks Korea this morning as part of the ongoing investigation," said a spokesman for the Shinsegae Group, which operates Starbucks Korea.
This past May, Starbucks advertised large to-go cups they called "tank tumblers" and seemed to refer to the Gwangju Uprising as "tank day."
On May 18, 1980, the ruling military junta violently put down a pro-democracy protest in the city of Gwangju.
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