As of 2024, there are nearly 2,000 Starbucks coffee shops across South Korea, according to SCK Company, which operates Starbucks in the country through a licensing deal.

Visitors sit at a newly opened Starbucks store as North Korea's Kaephung county is seen in the background at the observatory of the Aegibong Peace Ecopark in Gimpo, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024.

Starbucks’ nickname service in South Korea causes political headaches. Customers had been using the “Call My Name” option — often used for jokes and K-pop fandom — to have baristas shout ...

Starbucks Korea runs a “Call My Name” service, which allows customers to select a nickname on the app for baristas to shout out when their sea-salt caramel cold brew or sausage pretzel is ready.

A Starbucks Korea spokesperson told NBC News the policy was introduced “in order to prevent inappropriate and abusive use of the names.”. The decision comes as South Koreans have increasingly ...

Around 200 Starbucks stores in South Korea are testing out plant-based plastic straws after customers complained about the durability of the coffee chain’s paper straws.

Walk into any Starbucks in South Korea right now, and there are some names you definitely won't be hearing. Six to be exact - and they happen to be the names of the candidates running in the ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Ordering coffee in South Korea? Not if your name is Lee Jae-myung. Starbucks customers in the East Asian democracy have been barred from using the names of South Korea’s ...

Starbucks in South Korea runs a "Call My Name" service, which allows customers to select a nickname which they input via the Starbucks app for baristas to announce when orders are complete.

Starbucks in South Korea has banned customers from using the names of the country's presidential candidates -- or the disgraced ex-president -- for their orders, the coffee giant told AFP ...

Starbucks has opened a new coffee shop in South Korea, where customers can sip their lattes and view a quiet North Korean mountain village in the distance.. On Friday (November 28), the American ...

Starbucks’ nickname service in South Korea causes political headaches May 26, 2025 Updated Mon., May 26, 2025 at 8:45 p.m. People visit a Starbucks cafe after a political protest in Seoul on Dec. 6.