{"id":12774,"date":"2014-01-28T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T10:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12774"},"modified":"2014-01-28T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T10:51:57","slug":"eating-on-camera-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12774","title":{"rendered":"Eating on camera in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eatalone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12775\" alt=\"eatalone\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eatalone.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eatalone.jpg 299w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eatalone-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 85vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>The job that Americans were destined to do: get paid to eat a lot of food while other people watch on the internet. Reuters is reporting on \u201cgastronomic voyeurism,\u201d a trend growing in popularity in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">34-year-old Park Seo-yeon used to work for a consulting firm but has left that job. Why? She\u2019s earning more than $9,000 a month to eat on camera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Going by the name, \u201cThe Diva,\u201d she sits down to a table of food and eats for up to three hours. Her viewers chat with her and send her \u201cvirtual balloons,\u201d which Reuters says, \u201ctranslate into cash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, what\u2019s the deal? The Diva thinks it\u2019s about enjoying something through someone else, \u201cPeople enjoy the vicarious pleasure with my online show when they can&#8217;t eat that much, or don&#8217;t want to eat food at night, or are on a diet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of The Diva\u2019s fans, 26-year-old Park Sun-Young says it\u2019s about approximating the feeling of having company. &#8220;It&#8217;s comforting for people who eat alone,\u201d says Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apparently, eating alone is something that is happening more and more in South Korea. Reuters points out that within 15 years, a third of the nation\u2019s population could be comprised of one-person households, the fastest rate amongst developed countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The job that Americans were destined to do: get paid to eat a lot of food while other people watch on the internet. Reuters is reporting on \u201cgastronomic voyeurism,\u201d a trend growing in popularity in South Korea. 34-year-old Park Seo-yeon used to work for a consulting firm but has left that job. Why? She\u2019s earning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12774\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eating on camera in South Korea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[8163,8162,3442],"class_list":["post-12774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-eating-alone","tag-gastronomic-voyeurism","tag-south-korea"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/eatalone.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12776,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774\/revisions\/12776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}