Korean Internet Trend “Mukbang” Sees People Watching Strangers Binge-Eating Food

In the US internet celebrities largely consist of YouTube vloggers and twenty-somethings recording themselves playing video games, but in South Korea they much prefer watching a stranger binge-eat in front of their webcam.

Since 2011 the odd phenomenon, known as “mukbang” (a mixture of the Korean words muk-ja (eating) and bang-song (broadcasting), has seen hundreds of…

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