For years, people have been heading to YouTube to spend upwards of 60 minutes at a time to watch strangers consume 4,000 or more calories in one sitting. Not only that, many of these viewers are ...
A weekly deep dive into the current trends, slang, and viral videos of youth culture in terms that even the squarest can understand. If I have to know what mukbang videos are, so do you. The name is a ...
Popular Korean mukbang YouTuber Tzuyang, whose real name is Park Jung-won, has opened up about years of alleged abuse, extortion, and threats from her ex-boyfriend, referred to as Mr. A. The ...
That’s right, in Korea you can be paid big bucks to eat a large meal live on the internet. The online craze is called mukbang, and it derives from the Korean words “eating” (muok-da) and “broadcast” ...
In the hallowed hall of food fads, what in the world could be weirder than mukbang? A Korean word, loosely translated it means something like eat-casting. Basically, it's watching long YouTube videos ...
From listening to BTS to watching K-dramas to K-beauty and fashion trends-- the Korean culture has influenced the lives of many people across the world. Adding to the Korean culture wave, the Oxford ...
Amy McCarthy is a former reporter at Eater, focusing on pop culture, policy and labor, and only the weirdest online trends. As 10 slices of bacon sizzle on an electric griddle, YouTube star Nicholas P ...
Spread atop a wooden board are about half a dozen small octopuses, alive and squirming. The Korean "mukbang" influencer Ssoyoung warns her viewers not to try the delicacy—a known deadly choking hazard ...