Musinsa issues fresh apology over controversial 2019 ad

Musinsa issued a fresh apology Wednesday over a controversial 2019 marketing campaign that mocked South Korea’s democratization movement, after President Lee Jae Myung publicly condemned the advertisement amid the growing fallout from Starbucks Korea’s recent “Tank Day” controversy.

In a statement, Musinsa said it had been “watching the recent controversy surrounding another company’s historical mockery issue with a heavy heart” before recognizing that its own “major mistake from seven years ago