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South Korean Starbucks boss apologizes for ad campaign that evoked massacre
South Korean Starbucks' boss apologized again for a marketing campaign that sparked backlash for appearing to mock victims of the 1980 Gwangju Massacre, a bloody military crackdown. The campaign faced widespread criticism for evoking traumatic historical events.
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