Why has everything become so frightening? (KOR) A professor argues that political extremes turned a clumsy Starbucks Korea campaign into a damaging May 18 scandal driven more by speculation, memes and online hysteria than facts. 2026.7.9
Why has everything become so frightening? A professor argues that political extremes turned a clumsy Starbucks Korea campaign into a damaging May 18 scandal driven more by speculation, memes and online hysteria than facts. 2026.7.8
Starbucks Korea number of app users, sales slide in June Estimated June card spending fell by over 20 billion won and monthly app users dropped 1.13 million amid fallout from the “Tank Day” controversy. 2026.7.4
'The Unforgettable Day' film to cover aftermath of Chun Doo Hwan's rise to power The main trailer for “The Unforgettable Day” was revealed on Thursday. In the trailer, real-life photos and videos from May 1980, including newspapers and live-footage of the Gwangju Democratization Movement, are intermixed with fictional characters. 2024.2.22
Moon vows justice for 1980 Gwangju massacre President Moon Jae-in on Monday promised a reinvestigation of the 1980 massacre of pro-democracy activists in Gwangju to find out who ordered the mass shootings. 2020.5.18
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