Our Story
This brand began with a memory
from thirty years ago.
When John Kim was a little boy, he walked beside his mother to a corn dog shop in Korea. She bought him one, placed it warm in his small hands, and smiled down at him.
Thirty years later, he still remembers that moment. The warmth in his hands. The way she looked at him. The feeling that he was loved.
That moment never left him. Years later, it became the reason Ugly Donuts exists.
Heritage
During the Korean War, American troops shared corn dogs with Korean civilians. Korea transformed it: rice flour batter, fresh mozzarella, fresh dough every morning. 70+ years later, the Korean version came back to America as something entirely its own.
