mukbang

American  

[muhk-bang, muhk-bong] / ˈmʌkˌbæŋ, ˈmʌkˌbɒŋ /

noun

1. a video, usually posted online, featuring a person eating large quantities of food, often while talking to the audience as if sharing a meal with them.

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Etymology

Origin of mukbang

First recorded in 2010–15; from Korean meokbang, from meok “to eat” + bang(song) “broadcast”

Example Sentences

Fried chicken, a staple of South Korean cuisine, is eaten everywhere from family gatherings to "mukbang" livestreams, often paired with cold beer during baseball games.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

On TikTok and YouTube, mukbang — videos of people eating — of South Korean convenience store foods have gathered millions of views.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

TikTok serves up step-by-step mise en place with soft jazz and fingernail clacks; mukbang creators rake in millions by eating crab legs in front of a ring light.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

Millions subscribe to popular mukbang channels, including MaddyEats from India.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2022

This particular eel mukbang, to Rita S. Mehta, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was cinematic gold: footage that showed the bite, the prey transport with secondary jaws and the swallow.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2021