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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 9 points 2 months ago

The Gwangju-Jeonnam Memorial Coalition called the marketing “clearly malicious mockery”, adding: “We strongly suspect this is the result of management’s biased historical consciousness … being cunningly expressed through the mask of marketing.”

Nothing cunning about it. Completely out of touch.

[–] brackled@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

In a nation with countless local chains and small coffee shops I'm still amazed that Starbucks survives there. Erican marketing really did do a number... I guess it also helps that the Chung who fired the CEO seems to be a MAGA aficionado

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

A Taxi Driver is about the events and the struggles the journalist had to get the only known footage of the massecre. 10/10 film. Until the mid 90s, koreans could still get the death penalty for questioning the government narrative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taxi_Driver

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 3 points 2 months ago