The unholy, but inevitable, bastard offspring of pigging out and social media. It involves eating, and sometimes preparing, large quantities of food on camera. Invented by South Koreans, mostly to make fun of perpetually starving and undernourished North Koreans and their suspiciously fat and well-fed leader.
멐방 or mukbang, is the definition of the sin of gluttony. People get money for binge eating to buy even more food as to get even more views. Mukbangers are known to eat large quanitites of food that literally are equivalent to a full community meal that could be donated to starving Somalian children.
Friend 1: What the heck is that?
Friend 2: Is a mukbang, she eating a tiny snack.
*Snack*-15 pounds of lobster
"Mukbang" is an internet fad that finds viewers watching mukbangers binge eating copious amounts of food. This strange trend began in Korea in 2011. The term "mukbang" comes from a mix of two Korean words, "muk-ja" (eating) and "bang-song" (broadcasting). The most popular mukbang stars (also called 'BJs' for broadcast Jockeys) eat messy foods as they loudly slurp, chomp and display bad table manners.
I told my YouTubesubscribers I would make thirty mukbang videos in thirty days, but I think that may be too many, so I will only do a mukbang every other day.