먹방 (meokbang)

What it means

1. 1.

   A broadcast of someone eating a very large meal while talking to the audience. Korean in origin and now a global streaming genre under its Korean name.

Examples with translations

• 자기 전에 먹방 보면 배고파져.

  Watching eating shows before bed just makes me hungry.

• 그 유튜버 먹방으로 유명해졌어.

  That YouTuber made their name doing eating broadcasts.

Where it comes from

먹는 ('eating') plus 방송 ('broadcast'). It began on the Korean streaming platform AfreecaTV around 2010, and is often linked to the rise of single-person households — company for a solitary meal.

First attested: around 2010

Other forms

Romanised as:

meokbang