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= Ben Deen = Ben Deen is a Korean American video blogger who is known for his YouTube channel content focused on food. He was born in South Korea on June 20, 1990 and has garnered popularity on the YouTube platform for his cooking tutorials, taste tests, food challenges and more. Aside from YouTube, Ben has accounts on the Instagram and Patreon platform, and has his own merchandising store on the internet.

Personal Life
Ben Deen keeps his personal and love life rather private. He was born in Korea, but was adopted to America and took on the American family name "Deen". When Ben became an adult, he wanted to look for more information on his biological parents and brother. Encouraged by his American family, Ben decided to move to South Korea to find his birth family and subsequently started filming videos on YouTube to document his journey. He has also been known to be in a previous relationship with Anse, a fellow YouTuber who is also known as SJ.

YouTube
Ben joined the YouTube platform on Dec 31, 2008. His channel on YouTube is simply named "BenDeen", which has amassed over 900,000 subscribers and over 92,000,000 total views on his published videos. In the past, Ben has made a number of videos sharing personal stories that are non-food related, including his life as an adopted child growing up in America, how he learned Korean to grow closer to his birth roots, his lifestyle living in South Korea, etc. However, many of these past videos are now made private and are currently unable to be viewed for audiences on the YouTube platform. Nowadays, Ben has rebranded his channel to focus heavily on food review content and regularly publishes mukbang videos in which he consumes all types of food from his apartment in Seoul.

Instagram
Ben Deen's Instagram account, @ben_deen, has only 5 posts and just over 46,000 followers. He is not active on the platform but has shown public support for the politician, Andrew Yang, and the Korean hit film, Parasite, through his few posts.

Merchandise
After gaining fame from his YouTube channel, Ben decided to create an e-commerce business on Teespring. Products on his website include unisex hoodies, sweatshirts, and t-shirts, which range from $26.99 to $47.99 USD. Ben leverages his brand from YouTube to design his merchandise, weaving in catchphrases from his videos such as "Mighty Fine" onto his clothing.

Patreon
Ben's account on Patreon has the same name as his YouTube channel as "BenDeen". Over 40 people have become patrons to Ben, combining to provide approximately $100 in USD per month to him as an additional source of revenue.