Government Roasts Paris Baguette for Half-Baked Employment Practices

Going by its name, you probably wouldn’t guess that Paris Baguette’s company history begins in the poverty-stricken Korea of 1945. In a video on its website [http://eng.paris.co.kr/new/index.html], South Korea’s SPC Group, parent company of the ubiquitous bakery chain, claims that everything started with a bakery in what is now North Korea, where, it says, an innovative smoke-free oven spurred huge productivity advances and “helped many escape starvation.” The video goes on to describe Paris Ba