The trend is even quite literally putting meals on the table for some of the most prolific participants, who can earn up to thousands of dollars for each broadcast.
Young South Koreans have worked up an appetite for a 'dinner porn' craze that is sweeping the internet.
Called mok-bang, a combination of the Korean words for eating and broadcast, the videos show people live-streaming themselves eating their meals.
Some of them are even making thousands of dollars per broadcast as users pay to watch them stuff themselves.
One of the most successful stars is an attractive, small-boned woman known as The Diva, who broadcasts up to two hour long broadcasts on Korean video streaming website Afreeca where she talks to viewers about her dinner.
She gets paid thousands of dollars in virtual currency by viewers eager to see her gorge.
Piling mounds of noodles, tempura and sticky pork ribs into her mouth, she can consume thousands of calories in one sitting, but earns the same amount from her devoted following.
According to Kotaku, some of her most prolific attempts have seen her eat 30 fried eggs, 12 beef patties and five packs of instant noodles, a hobby that costs her around $5,000 dollars a month in food bills.
Several theories have been floated amongst the Asian press as to how the craze developed, with some suggesting that mok-bang is a way for Koreans, who increasingly live alone, to prevent loneliness.
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Young South Koreans have worked up an appetite for a 'dinner porn' craze that is sweeping the internet.
Called mok-bang, a combination of the Korean words for eating and broadcast, the videos show people live-streaming themselves eating their meals.
Some of them are even making thousands of dollars per broadcast as users pay to watch them stuff themselves.
One of the most successful stars is an attractive, small-boned woman known as The Diva, who broadcasts up to two hour long broadcasts on Korean video streaming website Afreeca where she talks to viewers about her dinner.
She gets paid thousands of dollars in virtual currency by viewers eager to see her gorge.
Piling mounds of noodles, tempura and sticky pork ribs into her mouth, she can consume thousands of calories in one sitting, but earns the same amount from her devoted following.
According to Kotaku, some of her most prolific attempts have seen her eat 30 fried eggs, 12 beef patties and five packs of instant noodles, a hobby that costs her around $5,000 dollars a month in food bills.
Several theories have been floated amongst the Asian press as to how the craze developed, with some suggesting that mok-bang is a way for Koreans, who increasingly live alone, to prevent loneliness.
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