There's a new apocalypse in town...and it's turning everything bland! Four brave (and adorable) RAMYUNZ must travel across different universes and genres, isekai-style, to find special ingredients that will restore flavor to the world. Will CHICHEE, DAREE, JJANEE, and MAPPEE succeed in their missions and save everyone in time? . . .

RAMYUNZ Save the World! has a story by Nuria Sanguino, Jjolee, Na Yoonhee, Manou Azumi, Yeajin Shin, Fidesia, Grace Park and Cathy Le,and art by Yun Chan Lee. Localized by WEBTOON. Published by WEBTOON (September 2, 2026). Rated T.

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The world and all the food in it has lost flavor and only one grandma knows the way to get it all back! Grandma pulls a mysterious book from her shelves and summons four heroes, the RAMYUNZ to look for the four ingredients that will bring flavor back to the world. The RAMYUNZ, expecting to teleport to New York City end up in Cleveland, Ohio, where each takes on a single quest to gather one of the four essential flavors.

Chichee take on zombies that have overrun the street, even stealing flavor from a spicy Korean restaurant. Daree meets the K-pop idol of their dreams, while JJanee but heads with a goblin that has stolen flavor from a small, Joseon-period village, while Mapee finds themselves in the middle of a battle of the bands, with no band of their own, trying to defeat the flavor-stealing band, the Blandies.

Eventually the Blandies are defeated with the music of Korea. And a horde of raccoons, who, we are told, “respond to excellent dance moves,” but the day is won by driving Truck-kun through the crowd of brainwashed blanded zombies. The four magic ingredients, gochujang, sweet and spicy chicken fried legs, K-BBQ sauce and kimchi. With those four flavor returned to the world, everything will taste delicious again for everyone, from a small traditional Korea Village to a K-Pop idol, even Cleveland, Ohio.

In the end, this is all an advertisement for a 4-flavor Ramyun pack using these four key flavors, but how are you going to hate mascots that fight flavorless music, food, and um, tourism with delicious, unhealthy Korean junk food? On the positive side, there is an underlying love of Korean food and culture on display in this commercial that I hope my interest someone, perhaps younger person encountering it all for the first time. Despite the base capitalism at the heart of this comic, it is somehow charming that it included historical and contemporary Korean cultural exports.