Police raid Starbucks Korea headquarters over 'Tank Day' fiasco

South Korean police have raided Starbucks Korea's headquarters after complaints that the company trivialized the Gwangju Uprising with a promotion dubbed 'Tank Day,' the BBC reports. The Gwangju Uprising was a 1980 pro-democracy protest in South Korea that was violently suppressed by the military, and remains a deeply sensitive chapter in the country's history.

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