Oct 8, 2026 · 11 min · 8 segments
Social Media Train Wrecks, the Thursday food and beverage brand crisis post-mortem. Welcome to Social Media Train Wrecks. This is the Thursday episode of The Daily Trend Report feed, where we roll up…
Giovanni GallucciHostAlexis ParkerHostExplain it for the people who didn't grow up in Korea, because I had to look it up.
Students and citizens in the city of Gwangju stood up against a military dictatorship, and the government sent in troops and tanks.
So a coffee company stamped the word TANK on the anniversary of the day tanks rolled into a city full of civilians.
The slogan told people to thwack it on the table, bang it on the desk, the way you'd show off a heavy steel cup.
In 1987, police tried to explain away the death of a student activist named Park Jong-chol by saying an investigator hit the desk with a thwack and he just collapsed.
That lie helped light the protests that forced Korea into direct presidential elections.
Explain it for the people who didn't grow up in Korea, because I had to look it up.
Students and citizens in the city of Gwangju stood up against a military dictatorship, and the government sent in troops and tanks.
So a coffee company stamped the word TANK on the anniversary of the day tanks rolled into a city full of civilians.
The slogan told people to thwack it on the table, bang it on the desk, the way you'd show off a heavy steel cup.
In 1987, police tried to explain away the death of a student activist named Park Jong-chol by saying an investigator hit the desk with a thwack and he just collapsed.
That lie helped light the protests that forced Korea into direct presidential elections.
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