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“My Favorite Broadcasting Jockey Is…” - Interpretive Analysis on the “Mukbang” iewing Experience
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“내가 좋아하는 먹방 BJ는요……” : 먹방 시청 경험에 대한 해석적 연구

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Young Eun Moon Ji Soo Shim (한국교육방송공사) Dong Sook Park (이화여자대학교)
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mediasociety Media & Society Vol.25 No.2 KCI Accredited Journals
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2017.5
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58 - 101 (44page)

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With the rise of internet broadcasting in the late 2000s, a new form of broadcasting content called “Mukbang” became very popular in South Korea. Mukbang is a form of online broadcasting content in which the broadcasting jockey (BJ) consumes large quantities of food while interacting with his or her audiences. It has become a distinctive and popular style of broadcasting content in South Korea. It lacks the usual entertainment factors of traditional media content such as the casting of celebrities, sophisticated filmography, plausible storyline, or an addictive plotline. Nevertheless, Mukbang is extremely popular, which brought us to two interesting questions: “Why has Mukbang become so popular in South Korea?” and, “What is the driving force behind Mukbang that attracts the audiences to view it repeatedly?” To explore this phenomenon, this study focuses on the specific situations and contexts in which interactions between Mukbang audience members and BJs occur. This is a qualitative research that utilizes in-depth interviews to examine 14 people in the 20∼30 age group who watched Mukbang BJs on YouTube. Focusing on the relationships between BJs and viewers as the interviews proceed, the central research question is, “How are the audiences vicariously comforted through BJs while audiences themselves are enduring their appetites to stay ‘fit’?”
All research participants were under the social oppression of maintaining slim figure that Korean culture demands, hence treating food and appetite as subjects of abstinence. Therefore, participants regarded the BJs-who consumed large quantities of food and inordinately high calories without a care in the world-as a proxy who would revolt against the social norm that forced abstinence of food consumption. Simultaneously, the viewers preferred BJs who are kind, gentle, polite and easily manipulated, as the viewers were able to temporarily forget about their oppressed status by controlling and monitoring the BJs, putting the audiences themselves on the other side of oppression. However, though viewers obtained momentary satisfaction via this virtual relationship, the viewers returned to the brink of oppression at the end of the program. Paradoxically, for audience, the most intriguing part of watching Mukbang-which includes vicarious resistance through BJ and retaining control and power over the BJ-was inversely creating a new starting point for their voluntary participation in maintaining a slim figure as mandated by the societal norm.

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1. 연구를 시작하며
2. 먹방에 관한 몇 가지 논의들
3. 연구 방법 및 연구 문제
4. 자료의 묘사: 누가 무엇을 보는가
5. 자료의 해석: 먹방 보기의 의미
6. 연구를 마치며
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