The company is trying to stop South Koreans from using their orders to express support for or opposition to candidates in the ...

This move is a response to the growing trend of customers using politicians' names as nicknames when ordering drinks, often ...

South Korean businesses and celebrities usually strive to be seen as neutral. But it has become more crucial in recent months ...

Starbucks opened a new location in Gwangjang Market, and instead of sticking to its signature interior styling, it leaned ...

Customers had been using the “Call My Name” option — often used for jokes and K-pop fandom — to have baristas shout political ...

Global premium rum brand Bacardi Korea has partnered with Starbucks Korea to roll out a limited-time summer beverage series, ...

Starbucks locations in South Korea have some name that are temporarily blocked amid election tension.There are six names – ...

Starbucks has two new drinks on the menu to celebrate one of ... “including Joe Kind Snoopy and Charlie Brown macarons in South Korea and Joe Kind Snoopy Sugar Donuts and Joe Kind Snoopy ...

A three-year conflict between South and North Korea ended in a 1953 ... SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Starbucks to Start Handwriting Customers' Names on Drink Orders Again, Needs to Find ...

but not for anyone who wants coffee as a complex and thoughtful drink. While overshadowed by Starbucks and hundreds of budget coffee franchises, more and more consumers in Korea have been also turning ...

Walk into any Starbucks in South Korea right now, and there are some ... has temporarily blocked customers who are ordering drinks from using these names, which would be called out by baristas.