Mok-Bang: Food Porn Dinner Trend Sees South Koreans Live Streaming Meals

Mok-Bang: Food Porn Dinner Trend Sees South Koreans Live Streaming Meals

If you thought food porn amounted to posting a photo of your eggs Benedict on Instagram, think again. It's just taken on a whole new form.

Allow us to introduce the South Korean craze mok-bang. A fusion of the words for 'eating' and 'broadcast', the trend sees young people gorging on evening meals in front of a live stream, which is broadcast to thousands.

Unlike regular porn there's no sex, nudity or horny plumbers - all of the pleasure comes directly from the food. And that food comes in abundance.

The celebrities of the mok-bang world, such as The Diva (pictured above), can spend a lot of money on their evening feasts.

According to Kotaku.com, The Diva spends the equivalent of about £1,835 ($3,000) per month on food. In the past she has been known to munch through an expensive monthly food bill of between $5,000 and $6,000.

It may seem like an expensive past time, but it certainly pays well - with some of the mok-bang gang expecting to rake in thousands of dollars a month.

The stars of the live stream show eat for approximately two hours at a time and can consume copious amounts of food - on an average night The Diva can be known to tuck into 30 fried eggs and crabs' legs or two medium pizzas.

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