{"id":37542,"date":"2015-10-13T20:04:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T20:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=37542"},"modified":"2015-10-15T18:48:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T18:48:06","slug":"wat-te-doen-park-seo-yeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wat-te-doen-park-seo-yeon\/","title":{"rendered":"wat te doen, park seo-yeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Park Seo-yeon was eenzaam, alleen en verveelde zich toen ze besloot om maaltijden te koken en voor een camera op te eten. Er bleken duizenden te zijn als zij, eenzaam, alleen, verveeld, in het bezit van een internetaansluiting. Elke avond zien ze hoe Park Seo-yeon enorme porties kookt en naar binnen werkt, zelf is ze zo dun als een eetstokje.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ik probeer er mooi uit te zien terwijl ik eet en ik probeer veel te eten,&#8217; zegt ze. Haar fans zijn op dieet of liggen in ziekenhuizen waar ze smakeloos voedsel geserveerd krijgen. Park Seo-yeon eet plaatsvervangend voor hen, zo smakelijk mogelijk. Dat slokt veel van haar tijd op, meer dan zes uur per dag is ze bezig: prepping, shopping, broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p><!--- South Korea's online trend: Paying to watch a pretty girl eat Called 'muk-bang' in Korean, which translates to 'eating broadcasts,' online channels live-stream people eating enormous servings of food while chatting away to those who are watching\nEvery evening around 8 p.m, several thousand viewers tune in to watch The Diva -- real name Park Seo-Yeon -- begin inhaling enough food for several college linebackers.\nFor Park, online eating is not just a niche hobby but a significant source of income \u2014 she makes up to \u20a910 million ($9,300) a month from her broadcasts alone.\nHer costs are also high, however. She says she spends an average of $3,000 per month purchasing food for her show, which she broadcasts for about four to six hours per night.\n\"My fans tell me that they really love watching me eat because I do so with so much gusto and make everything look so delicious,\" says Park.\n\"A lot of my viewers are on diets and they say they live vicariously through me, or they are hospital patients who only have access to hospital food so they also watch my broadcasts to see me eat.\"\nHer fans show their appreciation by sending her money, in the form of virtual tokens that can be cashed in.\nAfreeca TV, the publicly-listed social networking site that hosts her channel, allows users to buy and send virtual \"star balloons\" which can be monetized after the site takes a 30-40% commission.\nAny payment by viewers is purely voluntary, as all channels can be viewed for free.\n\"We think it's because of three big reasons \u2014 the rise of one-person households in Korea, their ensuing loneliness and finally the huge trend of 'well-being culture' and excessive dieting in Korean society right now,\" says Afreeca TV public relations coordinator Serim An.\nWhile watching food porn on a diet may sound like masochistic torture, apparently lonely, hungry Koreans prefer to eat vicariously.\nAnother thing, Koreans hate eating alone.\n\"For Koreans, eating is an extremely social, communal activity, which is why even the Korean word 'family' means 'those who eat together,'\" says Professor Sung-hee Park of Ewha University's Division of Media Studies.\nLoneliness was also the catalyst for the Diva.\n\"So many of my friends were getting married and I was living alone and lonely and bored,\" she says.\nWhen asked if she has any time for a private life, considering she broadcasts more than six hours a day every day including weekends, the answer is that she doesn't need one.\n\"This is a lot more fun,\" she says.\n\nhttp:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2014\/01\/29\/world\/asia\/korea-eating-room\/\n\n\u201cI try to look pretty, eat pretty, and eat a lot of delicious food,\u201d she says.\nThe Diva\u2019s meals are mostly multi-course, multi-hour affairs featuring abnormally large portions. That\u2019s part of the appeal. A lot of her fans are young people, particularly young women, who face tremendous pressure to stay thin. \u201cA lot of my fans are on a diet,\u201d she says. \u201cWatching me eat gives them a vicarious thrill.\u201d\nCertainly, the lifestyle takes its toll. Park\u2019s success in the virtual world has changed her real life. She makes more money than she did at her office job, sure, but she spends most of her time alone, prepping, shopping and broadcasting. It is tough to make dinner plans, or meet a life partner (which she says she would like to do), when you have a standing date with three or four thousand online voyeurs. ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- South Korean woman known as The Diva makes \u00a35,600 a month streaming herself eating online for three hours a day (yet manages to stay chopstick thin)\n\t\u2022\tPark Seo-yeon, 34, makes her living eating in front of a camera\n\t\u2022\tThe 'food porn' trend has seen her make thousands from her hobby\n\t\u2022\tPark films her daily meals and broadcasts them live on a streaming site\n\nRead more: http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2547254\/South-Korean-woman-known-The-Diva-makes-9-400-month-streaming-eating-online-three-hours-day-manages-stay-chopstick-thin.html#ixzz2vCvKVr8s ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park Seo-yeon was eenzaam, alleen en verveelde zich toen ze besloot om maaltijden te koken en voor een camera op te eten. Er bleken duizenden te zijn als zij, eenzaam, alleen, verveeld, in het bezit van een internetaansluiting. 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