mukbang

English

Alternative forms

• meokbang

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 먹방 (meokbang, literally “eating broadcast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌkbɑŋ/, /ˈmʌkbæŋ/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• (hyperforeignism) IPA^(key): /ˈmʊkbɑŋ/, /ˈmuːkbɑŋ/

Noun

mukbang (countable and uncountable, plural mukbangs)

1. (social media) An online video broadcast in which a person eats while interacting with their audience.
   • 2016 January 6, shawn, “Re: AT&T U-Verse Shysters”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

     After all there's a huge market in South Korea for mukbangs. That's where someone is streaming as they eat. […] In any case there seem to be no particular types that are successful at streaming a mukbang since there are pretty young girls and heavy guys that seem to get a lot of viewers.

   • 2017, Charles Spence, Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, Penguin, →ISBN, page 57:

     I also get the sense, though, that some of those who, for whatever reason, often end up eating alone are tuning in for a dose of mukbang at mealtimes to get some virtual company (see the “Social Dining” chapter).

   • 2018, Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:

     In each group of comments, the intersectionality of Kinoshita's identity markers is compounded as she is singled out as a mukbang eater, a female mukbang eater, a slim female mukbang eater, and finally a slim Asian female mukbang eater, […]

   • 2022, “Estaciones”, performed by Action Bronson ft. Hologram:

     I eat the pussy like a mukbang, let my nuts hang

Synonyms

• social eating

Derived terms

• mukbanger
• mukbanging

Translations

online video broadcast

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 吃播 (zh) (chībō)

• French: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: モッパン (moppan)
• Korean: 먹방 (ko) (meokbang)
• Russian: мокпа́н (ru) m (mokpán), мукба́нг (ru) m (mukbáng)
• Spanish: mukbang, meokbang
• Turkish: yemek yayını

See also

• gongbang

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʊkbɑŋ/, /ˈmuːkbɑŋ/

Noun

mukbang (first-person possessive mukbangku, second-person possessive mukbangmu, third-person possessive mukbangnya)

1. Alternative form of mokbang

Further reading

• “mukbang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.