Ko So-young Reveals Her Diet Secret and Instagram Shopping Habit on YouTube

Korean actress Ko So-young says Instagram has become her go-to shopping channel. She shared the confession while walking viewers through her diet routine in a new YouTube video.

The video went up on Ko's YouTube channel on Aug. 25 under the title "Ko So-young's miracle diet secret: how she got back to the 40kg range for the first time in 16 years (weight reveal)." In it, the actress broke down the eating plan behind her recent weight loss.

Early in the video, Ko held up a roll of packing tape and showed it off, saying she "picked a pretty color." When a producer joked that she had nothing to tape up in the first place, Ko laughed it off. "I don't know. When something pops up like this, you know I'm easily swayed," she said, admitting she had bought the tape through Instagram. A producer teased that she should quit the app. Ko agreed. "I want to quit. If I got off Instagram, I think my spending would drop a lot."

The pattern kept showing up as she talked through her meals. Ko said the galbisal suyuk, or boiled short-rib beef, that anchors her diet came from a shop she also discovered on Instagram. Even the snacks she introduced on camera were Instagram finds. "I look up food a lot and check recipes often, so a lot of it shows up in my algorithm," she explained.

Ko married actor Jang Dong-gun in 2010, and the couple has two children. They are reported to hold assets worth more than 40 billion won.