SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea offered an apology Thursday over a toxic chemical substance found in its giveaway bags in a move to assuage safety concerns of customers. The move came after a user of an anonymous community app called Blind claimed earlier this month that formaldehyde was found on Starbucks’ “summery [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea said Thursday it has opened its first store inside a subway station in Seoul as part of its expansion strategy in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. The new branch opened on May 12 inside Gangnam station in a posh neighborhood in southern Seoul. It is designed to offer quick [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea said Wednesday it will recycle 100 percent of its coffee grounds by 2027. Coffee grounds were considered a non-recyclable material until they were reclassified as a recirculation resource in March, allowing them to be used for a variety of purposes. The U.S. coffee giant plans to conduct [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said Wednesday that Starbucks Korea had signed an agreement with the National Commission for Corporate Partnership and the National Cafe Owners Association. Under this agreement, Starbucks Korea will develop drinks using local agricultural produce before sharing these recipes as well as providing raw [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With Starbucks preparing to raise drink prices, consumers are scrambling to ‘hoard’ Starbucks drink coupons. As of Tuesday, KakaoTalk mobile messenger gift shop’s bestseller list in the ‘coupons’ section showed that the top 15 items, except for third and 15th place, were Starbucks coupons. Since Starbucks coupons are valid [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea announced that it will ban the use of disposable cups at all stores on the southern island of Jeju starting on Tuesday. The 23 Starbucks outlets on Jeju Island will only serve drinks in mugs, personal and multi-use cups. Multi-use cups can be returned through a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the main reasons behind Starbucks Coffee Korea employees’ truck protest last month was their exhaustive workload that has everything to do with the coffee chain’s famous marketing events. The first-ever protest by the coffee chain’s workers was set off by a 50th anniversary event on Sept. 28, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea said Friday it will stop using disposable cups at all of its stores on South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju within this year in the latest move to protect the environment. Starbucks said it eliminated all single-use cups at four of its stores on Jeju [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator plans to begin a probes into Starbucks-issued unregistered pre-paid cards. The Financial Supervisory Service has received a list of some 50 companies, including Starbucks Coffe Korea, which are operating an unregistered prepaid card system. Starbucks allows customers to charge their Starbucks cards through its mobile [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Facing protests for a better working environment, Starbucks Coffee Korea plans to hire a significant number of new employees and raise wages for managers and staff. The local unit of the U.S. coffee giant announced that it will recruit 1,600 new employees nationwide starting on Friday in addition to [...]